Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With 80th episode, TNG surpasses original series. Classic Trek fans aghast...
...through 719, which offer the cautionary tale of the last Democratic President to scare away so many midterm voters that he ended up facing a hostile Congress followed by a fairy-tale sequel for the Democrats: the same President riding that very Congress, which he called "the do-nothing" 80th, to his epic come-from-behind victory...
...election!' " But '46 was also, says Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley, "a referendum on Truman," whom contemporaries regarded as too small-town, too intellectually limited and too amiable to command "the fearsome respect" that should attend his office. They couldn't vote him out, so they voted the 80th Congress...
...home-school advocates counter that a teacher's certificate is no guarantee of success. They cite study after study showing that home-schooled children excel on standardized tests. While the national average is in the 50th percentile, the average home-schooled students register between the 65th and 80th percentiles. Nor is this unconventional background necessarily a disadvantage when students apply for college. With no grade-point averages or class ranks, no chance to edit the yearbook or captain the soccer team, home- schooled students must have top test scores to win admission to the most selective schools. But many colleges...
...could do it blindfolded. Sure, easy. But if the pony were blindfolded? If you were both blindfolded and you were juggling live electric eels? Something like this may have gone through Ed McBain's mind as this master began There Was a Little Girl (Warner; 323 pages; $21.95), his 80th or maybe 160th crime novel. Could he, for instance, just to make things interesting, write a thriller in which his hero gets shot on the first page and stays unconscious for the entire book? What kind of hero would that be? Interesting question...