The Zapatistas rose in arms on Jan . 1, 1994, and more than 140 people died in a brief initial spurt of fighting that was halted by a cease-fire on Jan . 12.
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It offers candidates for state office this incentive : If, after an initial spurt of small-donation gathering to qualify, they renounce all fund-raising, they will get enough public money for a moderate campaign budget.
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Most freshmen that year were born in 1975; this year's freshmen were born in 1979 . It's a time span that coincided with the initial spurt of AYSO and other youth programs in the United States and specifically California.
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Overseas stocks have been lackluster performers for much of the contest . ( One exception has been the emerging markets funds, which had an initial spurt that gave the early lead to Sheldon Jacobs, editor of The No-Load Fund Investor in Irvington, N . Y .)
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While the initial spurt of sales was at first gobbled up by investors-- and they offered fat yields to entice buyers-- the glut of new bonds has since caused differences in yield, or spreads, on some of the new securities and corporate bonds as a whole to widen by a few basis points, investors said.
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Earlier in his sumo career, Masunoyama had initially been advised by a doctor that he had heart disease and should be careful not to overstrain himself; this also appeared to reflect in his sumo, where after an initial spurt of energy at the " tachi-ai " he would collapse after around 20 seconds from exhaustion.
