Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mark N. Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, said that while the $600,000 the O'Neills paid for the archives was substantially less than the amount the Russian government initially demanded, it still was more than Harvard was otherwise willing...
...poor start virtually precluded the Crimson from returning to the NCAA tournament, but it gained a considerable amount of respect by posting an 8-2-1 record over its last 11 games...
...answer is in your attic, also in your bedroom, kitchen and other parts of your home that represent the equity you, like millions of other Americans, have built up over those years of paying down mortgages. Lenders are willing--even eager--to advance you cash up to the full amount of that equity. And sometimes even more. Like millions of other homeowners who have taken up the offer, you can spend the money any way you want and take years to repay--at some of the cheapest interest rates you'll ever find, even after the Federal Reserve's latest...
...nuclear "umbrella" edging closer to approval by the Clinton administration. For TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, it?s a dubious triumph of lowered expectations. "It?s not Reagan?s ?Star Wars,' which was space-based," he says. "This is the so-called ?thin shield,? which consists of a smaller amount of interceptors [100] from a single site, rather than a full umbrella. Technically, it?s easier to build, but it also wouldn?t defend against a full-scale assault...
...Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco says that nose blowing may prolong and even worsen a cold. Researchers at the University of Virginia had healthy volunteers blow their noses and measured the pressure inside the subjects? sinus cavities. They found that nose blowing creates an enormous amount of internal pressure - a force that can drive mucus streaming with bacteria and viruses back into the sinuses, possibly making a cold worse...