Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell-off was the sharpest since the market plunged 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987. In terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia brokerage firm. "People are dumping < everything. A great deal of money is being lost...
...damage it has caused, may be coming to an end. Yielding to pressure from the U.S. and its own citizens, the Israeli government decided earlier this month to reopen a limited number of West Bank schools starting July 22. While the first six elementary school grades and the twelfth grade were scheduled to resume, the middle grades and West Bank colleges and universities will remain closed. The decision does not affect Gaza, where, except for universities and selected elementary and secondary facilities, most schools have continued to operate throughout the uprising...
...teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still expect the reopening of West Bank schools to occur without incident. Says a twelfth-grader named Salem: "How can I forget my schoolmates who were shot dead, injured and arrested by the Israeli army...
...seems to be all but irresistible. That stratagem has worked time and again for producer Joseph Papp for the 33 summers that he has staged free shows in New York City's Central Park. Rarely if ever has it reaped him a richer harvest of celebrities than in the Twelfth Night that opened this week...
...grimaces and gestures from The Fly, topping them off with a pantomime of catching and eating some insect. At best the show skitters along the surface of a script rich in unexplored depths. If A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most perfectly plotted comedy in the English language, Twelfth Night may be the most profound: its main subjects are death, madness, the delights of cruelty, the self-deluding and dreamlike quality of sexual attraction, the randomness of justice. Guskin's troupe makes the play merely sprightly, an ingratiating but seemingly minor work...