Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jones downby more than 130 points today in the most precipitous plunge in almost four years. While the index recovered to a more moderate drop of 57 points by the end of trading, Wall Street watchers feared that today's brief stampede, coming on top of a 50-point retreat yesterday, may indicate that the bulls are losing confidence. Triggered by a sell-off in technology stocks, trading hit the Nasdaq composite index proportionately harder, pushing it down 38 points. Today's drop followed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's upbeat economic report to Congress this morning. "Jittery investors interpreted...
...world is a big and strange place. For some people it is their connections to their family and to their friends that save them from the alienation that others must bear. And maybe for many others, the only way to keep one's wits is to retreat from the larger picture and enter a more comprehensible segment. Maybe that's what leads so many of us to look for a place where everybody knows your name, or lacking that, to Judge Ito's courtroom--where you're sure to know everybody's name even if you're not so sure...
...environmentalists to make sure he would not be challenged from the left for the nomination. But the tension between attempting to be a general-election centrist and a primary-campaigning liberal has added to Clinton's image as chronic waffler. A similar tension will also make Dole try to retreat from his recent rightward tilt if he is nominated and has to campaign against Clinton...
...officials have pledged not to launch any more air strikes. The U.N. denies any linkage. U.N. troops have abandoned to Serb forces the heavy weapons depots around Sarajevo, andthe U.N.says it will work to re-establish supply routes for humanitarian aid to embattled Muslim enclaves. "Certainly this marks a retreat for the U.N.," saysTIME's Mark Thompson. "The question is, now that they've got these peacekeepers out of areas where they are potential hostages, what will they...
...were killed and 21 others were wounded. The gunmen seized as many as 300 hostages, most of them civilians, and threatened to kill them if Russia did not immediatelycease military operations in Chechnya. As night fell, Russian officials say the attackers herded their captives into buses and began to retreat towards Chechnya...