Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, the Serb, Croat and Bosnian foreign ministers agreed to peace "principles" that call for two ethnic "entities" inside Bosnia. The Serb share would be 49% of the territory, and the federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats would get 51%. This split has been viewed by Pentagon analysts as unworkable because the Bosnian Serbs were reported to hold 70% of Bosnia's land. But the tide of war has recently been going so badly for the Serbs that the previous estimate...
Today's AT&T split caused the company's stock price to soar 6 1/4 to end the day at 63 7/8. After two down days, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 25.65 to close at 4,792.69. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was up 1.22 to close at 314.33. Advancers led decliners 1,213 to 1,048. The Nasdaq composite was also up today 4.38 to 1,064.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks rose 2.57 to 586.77. In London, gold closed at $384.75, down...
...Republican party is unfortunately split, D'Amato said. He advised presidential hopefuls...
...York Times and the Washington Post to publish the unaltered, 35,000-word Unabomber manifesto in today's Post. "These are two papers who closely guard their journalistic integrity, so this makes their giving in to a terrorist's demands even more unusual." The two papers split the $35,000 cost of the eight-page spread. Publishers of both dailies had debated whether or not to print the essay since April, when the bomber sent it to them with the warning that he would kill again if it was not published in its entirety by September 24. Attorney General Janet...
...collection documents the high ambition of Coltrane's work at the time, when he doubled on tenor and soprano sax, tested split tones, wrote his own beautifully complex compositions and experimented with long free-form solos. Also included is a detailed booklet of essays and personal reminiscences. (Maybe too detailed: 'Trane loved cooking oatmeal and hot chocolate, we learn from his cousin Mary, but "didn't like any crust on the white part" of his eggs.) For Coltrane fans the outtakes are a particular revelation--not just for the bits of studio banter (Coltrane and his sidemen are heard laughing...