Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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From Champ to Chump Buster Douglas sucker-punched the boxing world by knocking out heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in Tokyo last February. But success went to his stomach -- he became more interested in the banquet table than the boxing ring. Eight months later in Las Vegas, in his only title defense, the 246-lb. Douglas lasted less than three rounds against a leaner and hungrier Evander Holyfield...
...general dissatisfaction with the state of contraception research in the U.S. Numerous other methods are being studied around the world, including a hormone-releasing IUD, a hormonal badge that is taped to the arm and releases a contraceptive through the skin, a female condom and a hormone-emitting vaginal ring, which a woman can insert and remove at will. The French abortion pill, RU-486, is being actively considered for approval in several other European countries but has not been approved in the U.S. Thanks in part to political skittishness about funding contraception in the U.S., American women still have...
...business. But during the past three months, for the first time since the 1981 recession, the number of workers employed in the industry has been shrinking as the crucial shopping period approaches. In many stores customers who can find what they want may have trouble locating someone to ring it up. Even so, because of troubles elsewhere in the economy, stores have been able to attract some very impressive temps. In Manhattan, for example, where nearly 50,000 Wall Street traders and other workers have lost their jobs during the past three years, financial wizards are working some...
...clatters to the floor when Ernst Untzinger clumsily tries to touch the hand of the overly handsome waiter Luke, a graduate student who may be having affairs with both Ernst and Ernst's wife. Luke hires himself out for parties so that he can supply guest lists to a ring of thieves who prefer to pull off their heists when no one is home. Hilda Damien, the self-made millionaire whose healthy glow gives her the look of "a mild sunset," is unavoidably detained and never shows up for dessert. About the time the creme brulee is served, Hilda...
Even as the case against Manuel Noriega was degenerating into a legal three- ring circus, the country he once dominated was mired in a deep slump. Nearly a year after being installed by the U.S. invasion, the government of President Guillermo Endara is stumbling badly in the monumental chore of rebuilding a country devastated by corruption and the financial squeeze applied by the U.S. during the final two years of Noriega's reign. Though Bush Administration officials praise Endara for his good intentions, they fear that he and his government may not be up to the task of converting Panama...