Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock market put on a spectacular show of defiance in 1991. Wall Street's bulls ignored the crushing weight of debt on the economy and the signs of a protracted recession. Every major stock-market index pushed into record-high territory. The Dow Jones average leaped 535 points to an all-time peak of 3168.83, a gain of more than 20% -- and for good measure, rose nearly 33 points during the first two days of 1992. The S&P 500 gained even more than the Dow during 1991, rising 26%, and NASDAQ, the most popular measure for small stocks, surged...
While an automatic bid is issued to the winner of the ECAC title, the other atlarge bids are decided by the selection committee. In choosing which teams to invite to the post-season party, heavy weight is given to a team's performance against non-conference teams...
Plenty, according to Vyacheslav Tabolin, a Russian authority on pediatrics. He fears a major health crisis is looming for today's undernourished children, because their parents and grandparents suffered from malnutrition. Health officials estimate that only 8.5% of schoolchildren in the first to tenth grades are of a height, weight and build normal for their...
...deal breaker, the moment at which at least some portion of the audience is likely to realize that their eager-to-please saleslady has been soft-soaping a hard sell all along. By slamming several minor domestic dramas together in one handsomely presented package, Tides achieves the length and weight of an epic. But it is a false epic, a grandiose delusion compounded of conventional problems, easy sentiments and pretty pictures...
...reactive White House where quick reflexes are prized, Skinner became the preferred troubleshooter. He managed the Administration's response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Eastern Air Lines strike, Hurricane Hugo and the 1989 California earthquake. Now Skinner's task is to cut dead weight from the White House staff and reawaken the Administration's dormant domestic policy and public relations operation. His appointment has worried some conservatives, who relied on Sununu to take their side in most fights. But Skinner, who has recently applied his charms to the right, insists that he is "as conservative as any conservative...