Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport in that one race...
...crash course in the one aspect of medicine that most never learned in medical school: finance. Over the past few months, hospitals have been distributing pamphlets to physicians, detailing the exact cost of every test, operation and medication, and offering instructions on how to cut out unnecessary expenses. Says Ben Bronstein, communications director of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: "Doctors are going to have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe the latest and most costly antibiotic...
...Coach Ben Brewster is known for producing aggressive teams, and the Eagles found a way to knot the score just before halftime...
...stocky man with a halo of electric white hair, dressed in a light blue suit and tie and white shirt, fiddled nervously with his glasses and papers, looked frequently at his watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept...
...minutes to 8 on Saturday night-the evening arrival was carefully chosen so as not to violate the Jewish Sabbath-the Egyptian white Boeing 707, its red trim glistening under klieg lights, rolled to a stop at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli army trumpeters blared out a welcoming fanfare. As thousands of Israelis waved their newly purchased red-white-and-black Egyptian flags, out stepped President Anwar Sadat on a "sacred mission"-to speak directly to the people of Israel about peace...