Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House knows the nation is nothing if not fickle. TIME White House correspondents Karen Tumulty and Jay Branegan report that despite the recent spike in approval ratings, the drip-drip-drip of Monica-related allegations in the press will continue ? with Clinton himself maintaining his silence. Which is why an Iraq strike could have secondary benefits after...
...SPIKE ("DOING THE RIGHT THING") LEE AGE: 40 OCCUPATION: Director who really wants to act BEST PUNCH: Blasting Tarantino for using "nigger" 38 times in his new film, Jackie Brown, he told reporters, "Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made--an honorary black...
Ebert said he had visited Harvard before and had spoken at a class by film-maker and visiting lecturer Spike Lee about two years...
...back over 8000 after some good news from Japan fuels a 190-point spike in boisterous Monday trading. Get the skinny from down on the floor with FORTUNE Business Report...
...Another harbinger of prosperity, purchases of durable goods such as cars or computers, shot up by 18.2 percent in quarter three, the best spike in nine-and-a-half years. Overall consumer spending rose at a 5.8 percent annual rate, its fastest increase in five-and-a-half years. And ? better sit down ? business spending on heavy equipment such as trucks or turbines soared at a 24.1 percent rate, the best since the final three months...