Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There had been widespread apprehension that the death sentences would spark riots among Sikh extremists, but that did not occur. There was also no violence last week after a Pakistani court gave death sentences to three Sikhs convicted of hijacking an Indian airliner...
...spark plug off the bench has to be Co-Captain Anne Kelly, who is presently enjoying the best of her three seasons with the Crimson. The senior from Garden City, N.Y., has improved on both her field goal and free throw shooting percentages from a year ago, ranks third on the team in assists (16), and always seems to make something happen when she comes into a game...
Sidman, who had bought a ticket, was not allowed to enter the arena by security personnel. Last month Sidman sent a letter to Bruins officials warning that the match could spark violence...
...long-term impact on the economy is difficult to gauge. On Wall Street, the prospect of Gramm-Rudman's passage helped spark a stock-market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average surging past the 1500 mark on the hope that lower deficits will bring down interest rates and spur growth. But some leading economists castigated the budget-balancing bill in the most scathing terms imaginable. "It is," said Walter Heller, who served as President John Kennedy's chief economic adviser, "economically capricious, socially unfair, militarily risky, constitutionally questionable, politically irresponsible, procedurally perverse and administratively outlandish...
Meanwhile, freshman Fred Schernecker continued to spark Harvard off the bench, contributing six points...