Word: five
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...gasoline tax. For its part, the U.S. wanted Tokyo to make it easier for large department stores to set up shop in Japanese cities, to boost public spending, to crack down on Japanese price-fixing and bid-rigging practices, and to shorten the workweek of Japanese employees to five days by eliminating half-day Saturday shifts. The ambitious talks were part of the Structural Impediments Initiative launched by President George Bush last May, which seeks to make fundamental economic changes in the two countries in order to reduce the $49 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan...
...astrocytoma. Chief neurologist Dr. Paul Kornblith described it as "so aggressive, we had to go after it with hammer and tongs." Dr. William Shapiro of the Brain Tumor Cooperative Group, a nationwide research organization of neurosurgeons, estimates that Atwater, 39, has only a 10% chance of surviving more than five years...
...With five games in the next two weeks--including matchups against the highly touted Brown and Yale teams--today's contest should be a real test for the number-seven Crimson. So early in the season, Miller said, Harvard cannot put too much faith in its high ranking...
...guided the Crimson to 16 Eastern Sprints titles--including last year's--and 21 Rowe Cups (awarded to the best overall program at Sprints), 13 undefeated seasons and five official national championships, including the last three, in the 1980s. His Harvard crews have captured an Olympic trials win, a Pan American Games crown and the Grand Challenge Cup at the 1985 Royal Henley Regatta...
...there has to be something more. When Parker took over in 1963, his boats proceeded to smash the Yale crews in the annual running of The Race for 18 straight years and he currently enjoys a five-year streak over the Elis. Yale is blessed with the same so-called advantages as the Crimson program, yet Harvard continues to dominate...