Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spurt at the start of the second half gave the Celtics, 3-0, a 67-42 lead with 7:30 left in the third period...
Ironically, the latest spurt of Jewish emigration has caused a rift between the U.S. and Israel. Though Jewish emigrants almost always give Israel as their destination, many have actually settled in the U.S. Israel, eager to gain a higher share of Soviet Jews, has asked Moscow to begin routing the departees' flights directly to Tel Aviv rather than to Vienna, the current gateway. Washington opposes any move that would place limitations on the emigrants' freedom of choice...
...still experimenting with how to handle their 16,000 heroin addicts, a number that is significantly higher in proportion to the population than the estimated addicts in West Germany, Britain and France. In the late '70s, Amsterdam licensed four cafes to distribute heroin to addicts. The result was a spurt in drug-related crime and 30 heroin-overdose deaths a year. The city scrapped the scheme in 1980. Today, whenever a junkie is arrested for robbery or other crimes, he is offered a choice between going to jail or kicking the habit at a drug-rehabilitation center...
...sign of the change is that Volcker went along with a gradual reorientation of Fed policy toward pepping up economic growth. In 1986 the Reserve Board let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual pace, far above Volcker's original target limit of 8%. That money spurt, along with the weakening dollar, has let inflation edge up this year and may have sown the seeds of future rises that could nullify part of Volcker's celebrated victory against spiraling prices...
...import prices. But most economists predict that consumer prices will rise this year by no more than 5%. Says University of Minnesota Professor Walter Heller: "I don't think the elements are there for inflation to feed on itself." Still, skittishness about inflation last week led to a dramatic spurt in the bellwether Commodity Research Bureau Index, as investors anticipated that commodity prices would continue to rise. The index, which tracks the prices of 26 raw materials, posted one of its largest one-day jumps ever, climbing nearly 3%, to 235.41. It closed the week...