Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRINCETON, N.J.--Joel Sharp threw three first-half touchdown passes to help host Princeton post a victory in its 1000th football game...
...Sharp threw a 30-yd. touchdown pass to wide receiver Tommy Haan with 5:11 left in the first quarter...
Indeed, it started to shape up as a repeat of Black Monday, with sharp declines in foreign stock markets and the Dow Jones average falling about 63 points in the first half-hour on Monday...
...doubt the scientific value of the Galileo flight. Nonetheless, a sharp controversy has dogged the mission. At issue is the space probe's power source: two radioisotope thermoelectric generators that are fueled by almost 50 lbs. of highly radioactive plutonium 238. Antinuclear groups, led by the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Washington-based Christic Institute, have claimed that the generators are unsafe. Their view is shared by Richard Cuddihy, an analyst with the Inhalation Toxicology Research Center in Albuquerque and the lone dissenter on the federal interagency panel that recommended a go-ahead for the Galileo program...
Delegates from 100 nations will meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week to decide whether to declare the giant of beasts an endangered species. Such an action could trigger a global ban on ivory trading, but some countries may not go along, and smuggling will no doubt continue. Only a sharp drop in demand for gleaming white tusks can save the elephant. See ENVIRONMENT...