Word: risen
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That rally stalled last week, at least temporarily, as the value of shares plunged by 6.8% on Monday. Finance Minister Balladur quickly moved to allay investor concern. Said he in the National Assembly: "The Bourse has risen enormously. From time to time, people catch their breath." But after Balladur's speech, prices recovered only slightly. Market experts in Paris ascribed the slowdown to an impatient mood among investors, who are waiting for more solid economic results before pushing prices higher...
...party's power brokers following the seven-nation economic summit in Tokyo last month to pave the way toward an unprecedented third term. Instead, he was widely denounced for his handling of the meeting. His vaunted friendship with President Reagan produced no progress on stabilizing the yen, which has risen more than 30% against the dollar since September, cutting into the competitiveness of Japanese exports. After lobbying for rigid caps on currency fluctuations, Nakasone reluctantly went along with the other summit leaders and agreed to a vague system of monitoring exchange rates. To make matters worse, he appeared to bend...
Confronted with the wettest eight-month period in 57 years, commissioners in six Utah counties first applied their customary solution. They urged residents to pray for an end to the rain that has been swelling Great Salt Lake, which has risen 13 ft. in the past five years, threatening Interstate 80, Salt Lake City international airport and shoreline industries that mean $1 billion to the state...
...Billig earlier this year for involuntary manslaughter was a notorious case in point. Despite a record of having been fired by hospitals in two states, being legally blind in one eye and demonstrating skills that were described by a colleague as those of "a first-year resident," Billig had risen to be chief cardiac surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, one of the nation's premier military medical centers...
Bode cited Department of Agriculture statistics indicating that the fraction of eligible people receiving food stamps has risen from 45 percent to 62 percent since...