Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Other New Yorkers are waging private wars for safe and affordable housing. Willie Olmo, an electronics technician who supports his wife Mabel and five daughters on a salary of $30,000, had nowhere to go last year when the landlord abandoned the apartment building in which the family lived. When police declined to drive away crack users who had set up a drug den in the building's basement, Olmo picked up a baseball bat and chased them out himself. He then bought walkie-talkies with his own money and started a tenants' patrol, which has since expanded into...
...Iraqi television's ubiquitous stand-in for Saddam Hussein faced the camera with a doleful expression. "The children of Iraq," he claimed last week, "are dying because they are being deprived of their food and milk and medicine." With the U.N.-backed embargo only five weeks old, Baghdad's charge seemed extremely dubious. Diplomats in the Iraqi capital reported that despite lines at bakeries and preparations for rationing, no staples have disappeared from the shelves...
...result in the "murder of the European car industry" and argues that the Community should impose a 10-year transition period, starting in 1993, during which Japanese imports would be kept at current levels. The European Commission, which is negotiating a deal with the Japanese, is pushing for a five-year transition...
...have sexual intercourse?" (at age 16 or 17); "Out of 10 American women, how many would you estimate have ever masturbated?" (six to eight); "What percentage of women engage in anal sex?" (30% to 40%); "What do you think is the average length of a man's erect penis?" (five to seven inches). Still, as Kinsey shows, the level of actual knowledge suggests that the great sexual revolution of the late '60s was vastly over-rated. Of women 30 to 44, only 55% got a passing grade on the test (10 correct answers); of men in the same age group...
...average time that immigrants spent in the main building was short (three to five hours) but fateful. After depositing their baggage, they headed for the immense, vaulted Registry Room on the second floor. The stairway climb was called the "60-second physical" because nurses and doctors were perched at the top to weed out anyone who looked short of breath -- a possible sign of tuberculosis and heart disease. Then came more formal medical examinations and questions about the newcomers' politics. Anarchists and Bolsheviks were sent home. Others were singled out for further medical testing and possible expulsion...