Word: eights
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Benton plays disturbing games with time as well. Ted's boss sits him down for a little talk and we learn that Joanna has been gone for eight months. It seems more like three weeks. Forget that Ted could not possibly afford a snazzy, Upper East Side apartment on his $32,000 salary. And feel sorry for the guy whenever he ventures into a restaurant. Poor Ted just can't have a normal meal out. He sees Joanna for the first time in 18 months, gets fired, learns the court's verdict--all in chic, midtown restaurants...
...scale occupation. Moscow's divisions spread into the hinterlands to stiffen the Afghan army's wavering resistance against the Muslim insurgency. A huge Soviet military airlift, which set the stage for the Christmas overthrow and execution of President Hafizullah Amin, showed no sign of slowing. Each day, eight to ten gigantic Antonov transport planes landed at Kabul and Bagram airports. Besides an arsenal of T-62 tanks and armored personnel carriers, the planes disgorged electric generators, bulldozers and building materials-telltale fixtures of an army that was digging in for a long stay. At least five Soviet combat...
Because he teaches at Temple University, just eight scabrous blocks from where he was raised as the son of a housemaid and a man who left when the boy was three, Walter Williams jokes that he never really broke out of the Philadelphia slums. As a kid, he drifted. He determined to make something of himself only when he was leaving the Army. Married, broke and 25, Williams drove a Yellow Cab, saved some money, went to California and invested the next ten years in study. "When I first attempted the written exam for a Ph.D. in economics at U.C.L.A...
...Bird, Ernie and other Sesame Street favorites are gone from CTW's newest undertaking, which aims at a somewhat older and presumably savvier audience, ages eight to twelve. The show's hosts are three young people, Lisa, Marc and Trini, who are forever leaving their Tinkertoy clubhouse for short, filmed sorties to labs, beaches and races-a total of 100 trips in 65 shows. At the start of each episode, Marc announces, "Science is fun," and then tries to prove it. Cartoons are shown to explain how things work, and celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part...
That's right. And did you know that the Steelers led the NFL in turnovers with 52? That's eight more than any other team in their conference--and 25 of them came on interceptions of Terry Bradshaw passes. Bradshaw's total was only one behind the league high...