Word: although
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Although both indices are still at higher levels than they were three months ago, these recent shocks have altered the course of the stock market over the few weeks so as to resemble--to continue in the same literary theme--a minefield. And an air of uncertainty, as any devotee of the Wall Street Journal knows, constitutes the deadliest economic poison of them all. Without getting too technical (ok, without any attempt at a sophisticated analysis) it seems as if things are going to get a lot worse before they get better...
...kind of ignorance that led people to continue to transfer funds to the technology sector long after it became hopelessly overvalued. It's so simple, then, to blame that sector as a sort of disembodied entity rather than understanding that this sort of correction was ultimately inevitable--that although it was impossible to prevent this mini-crash, it could have been prepared for if people took a step back from "getting rich quick" and looked at the ludicrousness of pulling money out of thin...
...should make it clear that it will impose economic sanctions on Peru if Fujimori continues to tamper with election results. These would not be ineffectual threats. The economic situation in Peru is delicate. Although Fujimori was able to reduce national hyperinflation in 1990 to the current 3.7 percent, it came at the price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut...
...Although these students were handed the punishment of delinquents by their local school committee, in many ways they were more mature and sensible than the Massachusetts Board of Education that imposed the test on them in the first place...
...course there are plenty of Third World trade unionists on board, although they don't see eye to eye with their American cousins when it comes to tariff protections. And needless to say, the governments of developing countries are hostile to having First World labor standards applied in their countries, which they see as a device to eliminate their competitive advantages...