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Bull Market
B ULLM ARKET Riding the Bull It is an understatement to say that during the 1990s the stock market was volatile. On 17 April 1991 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above three thousand points for the first time in history. By 1995 the Dow had gained 33.5... Read more |
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Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett 1976- American basketball player In 1995, Kevin Garnett became famous as one of the first high school basketball players to be drafted directly into the National Basketball Association (NBA). Despite many people's concerns about how a teenager would fare in that setting, Garnett did... Read more |
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Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods (Eldrick Woods), 1975-, American golfer, b. Cypress, Calif. The son of a African-American father and a Thai mother, he was a college star at Stanford and became the only three-time (1994-96) U.S. amateur champion before turning professional in 1997. Seeming to justify publicity... Read more |
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Ann Petry
Ann Petry 1909–1997 Novelist A Wake-Up Call First Novel a Sensation Further Explored Themes of Racism The Street Still Timely Selected writings Sources Ann Petry became the first African American woman to write a best-selling novel. Her 1946 work The Street, a tragic story set... Read more |
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Ballistic Fingerprints
Ballistic Fingerprints A ballistic fingerprint is the unique pattern of markings left by a specific firearm on ammunition it has discharged. Ballistic fingerprinting efficacy as a tool of forensics is a matter of some controversy. On the one hand, many lawenforcement... Read more |
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George Wald
WALD, GEORGE(b. New York, New York, 18 November 1906;d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 12 April 1997), biochemistry of vision, photoreception, retinol (vita-min A), color vision.Wald made crucial contributions to the study of vision and, in so doing, provided a molecular basis for photoreception research... Read more |
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Larry Joe Bird
Larry Joe Bird 1956-, American basketball player, b. West Baden, Ind. Considered one of the greatest all-around players in basketball history, the 6-ft 9-in. Bird played for Indiana State Univ. (1975-79). Joining the Boston Celtics, he was named the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Rookie of... Read more |
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart , 1897-1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic (1932). She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California (1935). In 1937, she attempted... Read more |
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Rebecca Lobo
Rebecca Lobo: 1973—: Basketball player Rebecca Lobo emerged as one of the biggest stars of the fledgling Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 1997, when she was drafted by the New York Liberty. Already a media sensation from her days as a leading force behind the University of... Read more |
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physical chemistry
physical chemistry branch of science that combines the principles and methods of physics and chemistry. It provides a fundamental theoretical and experimental basis for all of chemistry, including organic, inorganic, and analytical chemistry. In addition, it is the foundation of chemical... Read more |
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Pernod serves the first round in battle for Allied.
...24--THE first round of drinks...bottle. But only time will tell whether it...formed in 1997 from a...from number three to number...paying 13 times operating profit and 3.6 ... |
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Fuller runs final-round winning streak to 11
...for them to tell us it's...Don't tell me this...reaction time, matching...arriving first by four...possum. I only ran an 8...finals at the rate he now wins...those two rounds, I'm deadly...key face: ... |
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BE FIRST AT HARRODS SALE; FEMAIL CONTEST,Win a dream trip to Harrods.
...THERE is only one sale...store on the first day alone...also has three superb restaurants...Exclusive rates are available...the January 1997 Harrods Sale...minute cheap rate and 50p a...all other times. Your ... |
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Which came first, the panic or the facts?(Column)
...their harem round the croft...are anxious times for those...offering to tell you 'how...flu, still only in her forties, three winters ago...aunts, only in their...mortality rate was 3 per...close of the ... |
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FIRST, AT LAST; A late-race move puts Oriol Servia on top at...
...McGUIRE In his first 95 starts...kind since 1997. Servia...but twice, only to have Glock...line both times. Finally...to go. If only the rest...Servia first broke into...by scoring three poles ... |
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HERE & NOW
...produced not only entrancing...structures and time signatures...Nate McBride round out the trio...DANCE In its three years of...elsewhere, first-rank art...second-rate is common...African art was first ... |
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BCCI warning to BoE on 'knee-jerk' rate rise.(Business)
...Chamber members tell us that their...affected by a rate hike...interest rate rise may...They should only worry a central...second-round effects...deal but if rates are to be...interest rates at this ... |
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A fatal weakness for second-rate leaders
...We had first to be saved...dark grey three-piece suits with all three buttons done...Tories must first find salvation...next time round perhaps, but the time after that...Blair won in 1997. ... |
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Viva!: Real-life pain behind soap's gay storyline; North Wales has the...
...this prime time soap conundrum...Wales since 1997,many young...but as the first gay man to...region's first gay pub,The Three Crowns in...are gay -only a small proportion...of gay men round here get...the ... |
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Tiger's Masterclass
...deadpan closing round of 71 while...Woods is now only the third...He won by three shots from...Woods. "To tell you the truth...s seventh time contending...the 10th time that he had lost. At this rate, ... |
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