Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Five dealers were arrested and six more were being sought, but police do not plan to prosecute the patients. Some have already died. For the rest, said investigating officer P.K. O'Neill, "the simple fact is that it's just a matter of time before they pass away...
Started as a wet-suit manufacturer in 1952, O'Neill branched into sportswear five years ago with a line of trunks and tops. Clothes for snowboarding were a natural extension, since that sport is favored by many surfers. O'Neill's winterwear ranges from insulated shells ($90) to full suits made for extra- strenuous performance...
...long-awaited five-year study found "no evidence" that Agent Orange injured soldiers in the field. The report did conclude that Viet Nam veterans are more likely than the general population to get a rare, fatal cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But for some mysterious reason, the veterans who suffer from this cancer were predominantly sailors who were stationed off the Viet Nam shore and who had relatively little exposure to the defoliant. Even though the CDC could find no link between Agent Orange and increased cancer, Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski immediately authorized compensation for about...
...Pygmalion is teaching JL's works in Abu Dhabi, where the college was hoping for classes on Dickens or Galsworthy. In a final attempt at revenge, he tries his own hand at fiction but cannot find "the gadget that makes it all work, the crystal, the chip, the formula . . ." Five synonyms later, he desists. The trick...
...years had the Des Moines Register published anything that drew such passionate national response. For five days beginning in February, the Register (weekday circ. 210,000) ran meticulously detailed stories about a 29- year-old mother who had been abducted and raped. The series contained a graphic account of the assault and the woman's subsequent experience as a witness at her assailant's trial. To many Iowans, the most riveting fact about the series was that the victim chose to let the Register use her real name. By going public, said Nancy Ziegenmeyer, she hoped to focus attention...