The initial drop was caused by a global sell-off after Chinese stocks experienced a Mini-Crash, yet by April 25, the Dow passed the 13, 000 level in trading and closed above that milestone for the first time.

Ironically, Bhutto was deliberately kept unaware about the progress of the nuclear complexes when country passed the milestone of manufacturing fissile core decades ago.

A major milestone had been passed on the road to independence and self-government.

Despite not winning a PGA Tour event in 1983, Nicklaus finished 10th on the PGA Tour money list, and passed a significant milestone by becoming the first player to eclipse the $ 4 million level in career earnings.

This was also an important milestone for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as yearly attendance passed the 200, 000 mark for the first time.

An important legal milestone for the open source / free software movement was passed in 2008, when the US federal appeals court ruled that free software licences definitely do set legally binding conditions on the use of copyrighted work, and they are therefore enforceable under existing copyright law.

Two weeks later, Warner passed the 20, 000-yard passing milestone in his 76th game, the second-quickest of any player in NFL history ( Warner accomplished the feat in one game more than it took record-holder Dan Marino ).

In November, 2011, 250, 000 text-units milestone was passed by.

Another language-related milestone occurred in 1963: the British authorities passed a law requiring the subtitling of all films in English, supposedly to enable a watch on political content.

A contestant won a Disney collector's pin for each point level he passed ( minus any down to the previous milestone if he or she got a question wrong ).

* 1981: BoC passed another big milestone by opening the second overseas branch, this one in Malé, Maldives.

The ECR-90 was renamed CAPTOR as the project passed the production contract milestone.

This season, Adelaide United passed the one millionth spectator milestone of total crowds since the inception of the A-League.

Due to Roman milestone findings, it is known that a Roman road ( Roman road XVIII or Via Nova ) passed through the area ; there is also a Roman mansion in the village of Sandiás.

In 1988 the company passed a milestone by becoming the only Value Added Data service to become profitable.

The second major milestone on the road to unification occurred in 1927, when the Chartered Accountants Designation ( Private ) Act was passed by parliament.

The Roman road ( Via Julia ) very possibly passed through the village, although the statement that there was once a Roman milestone at the junction of Old Road and Albion Road Approach is erroneous ( the milestone in question is actually from Pyle ).

He passed the milestone of 300 Test victims at Perth by dismissing Gary Gilmour.

In September 1987, the squadron celebrated an aviation milestone when it passed 30 years of flying the McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

hot-colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch, where we passed on our way to the pump with the half-gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it.

A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.

This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.

He passed the receptionist in the outer office, muttering, `` I've got to go out for a little while ''.

A few passed along a tip for the simple reason that they liked him and wanted to give him a break.

Phil decided to stay a little longer, and as time passed it seemed as if the strange little man had never been there, but for the other glass on the table.

He went for more aspirin later in the day, and passed the surly landlord on the way -- he was still alive and scowling as usual, as if tenants were a burden in his life.

Without dissent, senators passed a bill by Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston authorizing establishment in the future of a school for the mentally retarded in the Gulf Coast district.

The $6,100,000,000 measure, which was passed last Monday by the Senate, provides for forty-year mortgages at low down-payments for moderate-income families.

A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products.

) The House, which had passed its smaller appropriation before the President's urgent call for more, was expected to go along with the increased defense budget in short order.

In the states that have passed laws preventing discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, support by real estate associations for compliance and broadened coverage through additional legislation could help remove the label of `` social reformism '' that most realtors individually seem determined to avoid.