Word: rousted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news, but Wall Street had better pray that he sees it that way. Although the U.S. economy posted a heady 7.3 percent annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 1999 - almost half a percentage point above preliminary figures released a few weeks ago - the consumption frenzy didn't roust the beast of inflation from its slumber. On the contrary, the accompanying inflation indicator, the GDP price deflator, actually came in belowthe figure reported a month ago. And the good news didn't end there: U.S. exports rose by 10.1 percent (2.3 percent above last year's increase), suggesting...
...Mountain," commandeered a bus to cross the nearby Thai border and took 500 patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make way for border trade and roads. But the impulsive raid quickly dissolved into a debacle. Marching into a hospital with guns and explosives squandered any sympathy the Karen rebels had had in Thailand, their traditional safe haven. Within 24 hours, Thai commandos stormed the building, shot dead...