Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise has been astonishing. As the daughter of Aung San, she was met with great deference, but her courage, bearing and oratory enabled her to build a following. The N.L.D., which she helped found last year, has grown to some 2 million dues-paying members in a country of 40 million people. During electrifying tours of the countryside, she disregarded the army guns that menaced her and her followers. And she has routinely flouted martial-law regulations prohibiting gatherings of more than five people. At one rally in Rangoon, soldiers aimed automatic weapons at the crowd that gathered to listen...
Some Wall Streeters are experiencing acrophobia. Others talk of vertigo. Whatever the buzz word, the feeling is the same: stock speculators have suddenly become woozy about the market's new heights. After a 230-point rise in 1988, the Dow Jones industrial average has zoomed more than 500 points this year, 200 just since the beginning of July. "I've been on this trading floor for 39 years, and I've never seen a market go up so fast for so long without a major break," said Donald Stone, a specialist in consumer stocks on the New York Stock Exchange...
...eighth up year in a row," says Morgan Stanley's Byron Wien. "That's never happened in this century." During this bull cycle, U.S. stocks have produced a compounded 17% annual return, almost twice their historic 9% average. Even during the crash year of 1987, the Dow managed to rise...
...cannot seem to shed the nagging feeling that they went wrong somewhere, that they have betrayed the ideals of their youth. This is exactly the kind of emotion Anthony M. Casale and Phillip Lerman tap into in their new book Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation...
Alarmed by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Bulgaria launched its toughest drive ever to assimilate the Turks in late 1984, when it tried to force them to adopt Bulgarian customs. Last May violent protests erupted throughout the country; 60 Turks were killed and 200 others injured in clashes with Bulgarian security forces...