Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Brown went ahead, junior Allen Bourbeaubrought Harvard back with two power-play goals.The center put in a pair of rebounds for his 17thand 18th scores of the year...
...precision of a major drug raid. There was nothing sleazy, though, about the locale: Manhattan's pinstriped financial district. On a chilly midmorning last week, a pair of federal agents strode into the gray stone headquarters of the blue-chip Kidder, Peabody investment firm. They headed for the 18th-floor office of Richard Wigton, 52, head of the company's risk-arbitrage and over-the-counter stock-trading departments. As Kidder, Peabody employees looked on in dismay, the officers arrested Wigton, then led the stunned executive away. The charge against Wigton: conspiracy to commit illegal insider stock trading...
...primary concern of the national-service supporters is the "baby-bust generation" and its effect on the military. In 1980, 2 million young men reached their milestone 18th birthday. By 1986 the number was down to 1.7 million, and by 1992 it will have dropped to 1.6 million. Says a Democratic Leadership Council report: "The coming manpower pinch will make it difficult to maintain the current quality and size of the all-volunteer force without driving up its already considerable cost." Pentagon officials argue that the all-volunteer force has had no trouble getting quality recruits or controlling costs...
...dancers are like fragile 18th century porcelain figures, the young women in Barbara Matera's exceptionally pretty tutus. But there is nothing delicate about the work Martins set them. His choreography tends to be difficult and full of steps; Les Petits Riens, with its big, complicated moves and witchy shifts in direction, is no exception. But the performers' aplomb made the details flow together and the ballet seem like a lyrical visualization of Mozart...
...discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...