Word: sparking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...specter of global recession helped spark Monday's plunge in Asian stocks as Hong Kong's main index fell 5%, Japan's 4.3% and Indonesia's 10%. Markets ended mixed on Tuesday: Japan's Nikkei index dropped 3% while Korea's Kospi and Singapore's Straits Times index both rose slightly. But few were heartened by the feeble bounces...
...presentation was part of a series of talks based on a variety of media—authors’ readings, lawyers’ conversations, and other film screenings. In screening the film, the Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hoped to spark debate within the school on these issues, said Houston Institute Communications and Events Director Colin M. Ovitsky. Last night, that dialogue included a discussion of current student activism at Harvard. April Yvonne Garrett, moderator of the event’s panel discussion and the president of Civic Frame, an organization that...
...clear what he is talking about. Is he talking about American publishers, American writers, American institutions? “That is why the statement has caused such a storm,” Engell added. “It’s like throwing a spark into a gasoline tank. He is accusing a whole nation.” English professor Gordon Teskey, who specializes in English Renaissance poetry, said that Engdahl’s statement misses the fact that literature must grow out of the community in which it is written. “All literature, like wine, is local...
Although a variety of strong performances lifted the Crimson to its weekend success, one in particular provided the spark that pushed the team to a 9-2 set record over the weekend...
...That spark came from freshman Anne Ingersoll...