Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over, it would say ($300 a share was preposterous), but the world is not going to end, and deals can still be done at other than fire-sale prices. If investors saw UAL shoot to 160 in a deal backed by America's most highly respected bank, greed would stir...
...fact that capitalist foreigners were visiting at all suggests that the world's last great communist dinosaur is beginning to stir. As national alliances have been radically redrawn over the past year, the longest-running dictatorship in the world has found itself increasingly abandoned by the two patrons, Moscow and Beijing, that it has always managed to play off against each other. Pyongyang's sense of vulnerability was only sharpened when the Soviets, who account for 50% of North Korea's trade, established full diplomatic relations with South Korea in September. China, meanwhile, enjoys $3 billion a year of trade...
NATION: The rumblings of conflict in the gulf stir a growing debate: Should the U.S. declare war before it goes on the offensive...
...that the whole basis of the House system? Our after-Christmas exams? The admissions process? Broccoli Walnut Tofu Stir...
...images still stir the spirit: multitudes, swathed in yellow, sweeping Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines; Benazir Bhutto campaigning atop truck caravans in Pakistan; Violeta Chamorro, in a wheelchair, toppling Nicaragua's haughty Sandinista regime. In the past decade, no man has come to power as dramatically and as spectacularly as these women. For feminists everywhere, the rise of Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro seemed to augur huge steps forward for societies usually characterized by unrelenting machismo. The images, however, were misleading...