Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...somewhat uneven storyline is consistently engaging and occasionally gripping. The story revolves around five medical students at "University Hospital School of Medicine" who, by the miracles of modern technology, can stop all brain and heart activity--thus achieving "flatlines" on the EKG machine--to explore what exists after death. Their death experiences are at first aesthetically and emotionally beautiful, but grow exceedingly unpleasant with time. And when the "flatliners" come back to life--again thanks to the miracles of modern technology--they bring their otherworld haunts with them...
...remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic scripts so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra if you can hack...
Even before British Defense Secretary Tom King unveiled his five-year plan for reductions in the country's armed forces in Parliament two weeks ago, lawmakers were debating how to spend the resulting "peace dividend." King's program, a response to the decreased threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, calls for reducing regular forces 18% over five years...
Lima went on a wild shopping spree last week as nervous consumers cleared store shelves of essential products like rice and oil in anticipation of shortages and steep price increases. The hoarding made an inauspicious start for President Alberto Fujimori, who began his five-year term last week without delivering an expected recovery plan to reduce rampant underemployment and curb the country's 3,000% 1989 inflation rate...
...million alpine-ski-boot market in the next decade. Says Thomas Doyle, research director for the National Sporting Goods Association: "It's a natural fitness activity, and the price is right." The cost ranges from $100 for basic in-line skates to $330 for pumped-up Racerblades, which have five wheels instead of the usual four...