Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After taking a cab directly from Logan airport to Bright Center, Sneddon tallied his second assist of the season in the Crimson's 7-2 victory. But the standout defenseman was wearing an eclectic uniform--Greg Hess' skates, Ted Donato's shinpads, Danny Scanlon's pants--after his equipment did not show up with his flight from Ottawa...
...standing by a river suddenly noticed a baby float by. One of the men jumped into the river and swam the baby to shore. Then a second baby floated by, and a third. Each time, the same man swam to the rescue. But babies kept coming, one after another. The other man saw that they were getting nowhere. So he walked upstream to stop the flood of babies at its source...
...they see one, are flocking to / Berlin. The Wall has become a potent new symbol in a plethora of TV commercials celebrating its opening. Pepsi-Cola filmed an ad that features a young woman handing a flower to a border guard. Quintessence, a Chicago cosmetics firm, taped a 30-second corporate ad depicting a family reunion at the Brandenburg Gate. AT&T interviewed people at the Wall who told how they phoned friends when it opened...
...began shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when Marc Lepine, 25, an unemployed electronics buff who once aspired to study at the engineering school, arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side...
...that could cause the average worldwide temperature to rise as much as 4.5 degrees C (8 degrees F) within the next 60 years. Another 11.3 million hectares (28 million acres) of tropical forest were destroyed. The ozone hole over Antarctica remained alarmingly large, and scientists reported evidence that a second hole was developing over the Arctic. Whether or not all of the dire predictions come to pass, they underscore a chilling message: the planet is in grave trouble. If nations do not take drastic action, it could one day be unfit as a human habitat...