Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nhan Truong recalls that the children who needed the most help were those who had just arrived in the United States. The Lowell House resident decided to start a program to help refugee children. Allston-Brighton seemed perfect for such a program as it has a sizeable refugee community and no local community service program specifically aimed at the refugee children...
...pals, the "rude mechanicals," are for once believable working men, unpatronizingly evoked if, alas, therefore a little less funny than usual. This Midsummer will not stand in memory with Peter Brook's 1971 landmark staging or Liviu Ciulei's 1985 war of the sexes. But it is a vibrant start to a welcome project...
Whether or not the dollar goes lower, its 50% decline against major currencies since early 1985 has started to work wonders for American exporters, who have watched their products become progressively cheaper to foreign buyers. U.S. exports were an estimated $251 billion last year, up nearly 15% from 1985, and most economists expect the rise to continue. Jason Benderley, a senior economist at the Goldman, Sachs investment firm, predicts that if the dollar stays at its current level, overseas shipments could grow by as much as 15% a year through 1991. If imports level off or decline, the trade deficit...
...camp on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, the shabab gathered, young men ranging in age from 15 to 30. The camp, which houses 5,000 people, is a concrete maze with open sewers running down each alleyway. "No matter what time the army comes, we come out and start confronting them," said Osama Nijim, 23. It has become a way of life, the only way of life in recent weeks, when work has been scarce because of strikes, and soldiers are everywhere...
...that allow investors to bet on the direction the stock market is headed without having to buy the stocks themselves. Cheaper and easier to trade than traditional securities, stock- index futures seemed to the budding portfolio insurers like a hedge made in heaven. Rather than sell stocks when prices start to fall, clients could hold the stocks and sell stock-index futures instead. If the market kept falling, income from the sale of the futures would offset much of the losses in the underlying stocks. If the market reversed field and started back up, clients would take some loss...