Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams has seen her share of success and failure in British politics. After three tries, she won a seat in the House of Commons in 1964 as a member of the Labour Party. Fifteen eventful years later, Williams was ousted in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party landslide. "It is a difficult thing, the British system of politics," she says. "The party is terribly important. You go up and down with...
...suicide rate there was found to be 33% higher than the national average. The county (pop. 400,000) has already suffered 51 suicides this year, including six teen deaths, and expects to hit a record 70 suicides by December. Authorities speculate that the root cause may be explosive growth. "Fifteen years ago Cobb County was rural pastureland," says Dirk Huttenbach, a psychiatrist for adolescents. "Anytime you have greater instability and less tradition, you're going to have this sort of turmoil...
Setting this precedent eventually required two months and reams of correspondence with fifteen American universities, Citicorp bank, and five separate ministries of the Hungarian government. Karossy began by sending letters to admissions officers of the various universities, without notifying the Hungarian authorities...
...love to do it again if the weather's better," said participant Chris Baird, a friend of Everett's who has played the trombone for fifteen years...
...incomes have stagnated for the last fifteen years, despite different administrations, technological advance, the exploitation of resources, and massive borrowing...