Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...covered South Africa's Terence Parkin, a deaf swimmer, in a report that reached new heights of high-school-newspaper-level writing. "What must it be like to swim before thousands of fans and never hear the cheers?" NBC asked. "He'd like to make some noise this week - the kind that everyone can't help but hear." (Later, we heard he would "visually watch" a strobelight to start the race...
...Confronted by a group of apparently intoxicated skinheads last Tuesday, the student, a senior, was pushed to the ground and kicked repeatedly. The injuries required stitches, and the victim spent the rest of the week recuperating...
...decision to put Joseph E. Maynard's name on an elementary school was made in less than a week. But the debate over changing that name has proved considerably more contentious...
...sure isn't going to lift this week...
...This week, the Food and Drug Administration is ground zero in the American debate over abortion. The administration faces a Friday deadline to determine whether the so-called "French abortion pill," or RU-486, should be marketed in the United States. The drug, which is actually two separate pills taken under a physician's supervision over the course of two days, has been proven extremely effective in ending pregnancies up to the 50th day following conception. The drug is very different from the "morning-after pill," or emergency contraceptive, which is administered in the 24 hours following intercourse...