Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Andrew and Tayenaka work for Paramedic Squadron 39 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, a unit that serves a working-class white and Hispanic area within comfortable reach of five hospital emergency rooms. But as time passes each day, one E.R. after another claims saturation and closes down. Paramedics with life-and-death cases must sometimes beg or bluff their way in. Equally frustrating, trauma-care capability gets entangled with the community's demand for street medicine. High-speed runs for "unknown rescue" all too often involve nothing more than cut fingers, headaches and family hysteria...
...speak of a narcotics pipeline across the American border, but little did they know how much truth there was in the metaphor. Last week astonished U.S. Customs agents unearthed an elaborate tunnel that began in the Mexican town of Agua Prieta and emerged 200 ft. away in Douglas, Ariz. Five ft. high and 4 ft. wide, the subterranean pathway had electric lighting, water pumps and storage compartments for drug caches. "It was just an exceptionally professionally engineered tunnel," said a Customs official. Agents first began to suspect the tunnel's existence last February, when a drug shipment they were tracking...
...Today show. Since the end of December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as co-host, ratings have not merely dropped; they have gone into free fall, a dizzying decline of nearly 25% that translates into approximately 920,000 lost households. The No. 1 morning program only five months ago, Today is now a distant No. 2, far behind ABC's Good Morning America...
...question now facing the city was what, if anything, could avert a plunge into deeper turmoil. Less than five months after he was sworn in as New York's first African-American mayor, Dinkins was confronting severe strains in the multiracial society he likes to call the "gorgeous mosaic." Yusuf Hawkins, Dinkins declared, had been killed by "racism in the first degree." Though "no verdict can take back the hate that was unleashed upon him or the pain that was inflicted upon all of us by the attack," said Dinkins, "it does allow us to begin to turn our attention...
...final contest last Sunday, the Terrapins of Maryland raced out to a 4-0 first-half lead. Once again, the Crimson battled back. With less than five minutes remaining in the game, senior forward Jenny Walser found the net to give Harvard an 8-7 victory and the elusive national championship...