Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each receive 21 annual after-tax payments of about $24,000, starting this year. As the winners contemplated new houses and cars and college tuition for their children, even the losers--and there were a lot of them--seemed to agree: it could not have happened to a nicer bunch. "These guys are like a cross section of America, with every ethnic, racial and religious group represented," said Karl Wallburg, their boss at the George Hantscho Co. press manufacturing plant. "It's like a fairy tale, and all of us here, even those who didn't win, are on cloud...
...began when a bunch of jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation...
...movement as a whole because the problems plaguing American labor in general also apply to the United Steelworkers union. Union membership has declined by one half in the last five years. Add this to the depressed American steel industry and you've got a pretty low-spirted bunch of steelworkers...
...Second semester had been better than first, and I really didn't want to start learning a new system. I also told myself that if Harvard had problems, I should stay and help initiate changes. Most of what I told myself, especially the latter part, was just a bunch of crap. I had chickened out, and I knew...
...Reagan was right when he called these guys a bunch of thugs," one hostage whispered. "But he was stupid to say it when he did. Can you believe an American President would say such a thing when American citizens are being held hostage...