Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years since, by tabulating sunspot records going back to the early 18th century and using improved telescopes, satellites, advanced instruments and modern theory, scientists have become ever more familiar with the bizarre dance of the sunspots. Each cycle begins when spots show up in both the northern and southern hemispheres about 35 degrees away from the solar equator. As the cycle matures and the older sunspots fade away (some last only a few hours, others for weeks and even months), new and more numerous spots appear at lower latitudes. Toward the end of the cycle, diminished in number, they appear...
...spend and spend and spend for health care--$550 billion in 1988, comprising 11.5 percent of our GNP. Yet America's infant mortality rate ranks 18th among industrialized nations. The rate of Black infant mortality is twice that of whites and is comparable to rates in many Third World nations...
Despite an early Tiger lead, Harvard captured a 7-5 victory, its 18th-straight victory over an Ivy League opponent. The last time Harvard lost...
Caperton's success is also rooted in his experience running his family's insurance business in Charleston, which he built from a small operation into the nation's 18th largest brokerage. His politics, like his business management, depends on a salesman's enthusiasm and a willingness to listen. "I've never felt I had all the brains or all the answers," says Caperton. "If you expect more from people and respect what they have to say, it improves performance tremendously...
...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...