Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record 38.81 points, to 831.24, on a volume of 92.86 million shares. Exhausted but elated, the traders cheered lustily, tossed confetti into the air and kept the bar at the stock exchange restaurant open until 8 p.m., an hour after its usual closing time. The one-day spurt eclipsed the old mark of 35.34 set on Nov. 1, 1978, when President Carter announced his emergency program to boost the value of the dollar on foreign exchange markets...
...high at 5 a.m., the air already very hot. The day begins with a spurt of machine-gun fire and a shriek in the street, followed by a low moaning. One learns that these sounds are normal. Late yesterday afternoon, a car bomb exploded a few blocks from the hotel, killing two, shooting a gray-white pillar of smoke into the sky, which turned black before vanishing. Destruction is everywhere. An apartment house on a corner is cracked in the middle like a bone. It sags and heaves. Fragments of cement and wire hang from the structure at impossible angles...
...course, in the pay-any-price world of escalating health-care costs, even the most careful of HMO budget projections can quite unexpectedly boomerang. Last year, for example, the total operating budget for the Boston-based Harvard Community Health Plan was $65 million. But an unanticipated midyear spurt in hospital admissions, combined with higher than expected rate increases for services by the hospitals, wound up producing a cost overrun of $4.9 million for the plan. The Harvard HMO was forced to boost its premium 18% over last year's level. About a half-dozen other HMOs around the country...
...Bullets who eliminated New Jersey, 2-0, in their mini-series, led, 52-50, at halftime, but were put away by a third-quarter Boston spurt. The teams will meet again Wednesday night at Boston Garden in Game Two of the series...
Sweet as it was, the spurt was short-lived. With five minutes left in the quarter. Princeton reasserted control, capping an impressive pass sequence at the Crimson goal mouth with an Alex Dwyer score to reassert Tiger control. From that point on, Crimson shots never found the goal. Harvard tallied only one goal in the final period-and-a-half...