Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some pro-choice supporters. Promoters of self-help abortions are looking at several methods, including RU 486, the controversial French pill not yet available in the U.S. But most of the attention is focusing on menstrual extraction, a technique that can be used to end a pregnancy through the eighth week. At a recent meeting in Dallas, sponsored by the local unit of the National Organization for Women, more than 100 women saw a 30-minute videotape that showed how the procedure is performed with a $90 kit containing a glass jar, plastic tubing and a special syringe...
Another reason for nervousness right now is the too-good-to-last superstition. "This could be the eighth up year in a row," says Morgan Stanley's Byron Wien. "That's never happened in this century." During this bull cycle, U.S. stocks have produced a compounded 17% annual return, almost twice their historic 9% average. Even during the crash year of 1987, the Dow managed to rise...
...Jamaica, where he hammered Smokin' Joe for the title in '73. Then, the next year, the nightmare of Africa at 4 in the morning, and the specter of Ali in the ropes, taunting him with a whisper, "Is that all you got, George?" before knocking him out in the eighth. Says his friend Norm Henry, a California fight promoter: "He looks at Tyson, and he sees Frazier all over again...
...devise any methods to thwart rising costs," Duberstein said, "but I would say Hinz got a Harvard-sized deal. If he sticks with the team, he certainly will have the best contract of all 11th-round draft choices--he got a contract equivalent to that of a high eighth-round choice...
January 14: Providence hands the men's hockey team its eighth loss in its last nine games in front of less than 1000 fans at Bright Arena...