Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before his Watergate days, Nixon used Camp David to draft many of his important speeches. In his first term alone, Nixon made nearly 120 trips to the camp, refurbished Aspen into a posh home and converted the cluster of other cabins into a mini-White House. Nixon also added new cabins to the grounds, one of which was used by Daughter Tricia and Edward Cox on their honeymoon. Tricia aptly called it a "resort hotel where you are the only guests...
...American Samoa (pop. 31,000), a cluster of seven islands 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii, annexed by the U.S. after an 1899 treaty with Britain and Germany divided influence over all the Samoas. American Samoa has no formal representation in Washington...
After more than two years of recovery from the nation's worst postwar recession, lines at unemployment offices remain distressingly long, jobless youths cluster aimlessly on ghetto street corners, and politicians and economists continue to fret about the need to put more Americans to work. For Jimmy Carter, who campaigned on a platform dedicated to slashing unemployment, the persistently high rate of joblessness has become a critical challenge. Like his recent predecessors, Carter has yet to find the answer-if indeed one exists-for substantially reducing unemployment without setting off a new burst of devastating inflation...
...conservative tactics only failed once in the opening period and ironically the cluster of defenders in the penalty area undid the team in that instance. With 6:04 gone, Harvard tallied when sophomore center-half Kathy Batter placed a soft shot into the left corner of the goal as B.U. goaltender Kristy Tyre watched helplessly, screened off by her own teammates...
Occurring anywhere from one to eight times a month, migraines usually begin in the teens or early 20s and can recur for the remainder of the victim's life. Women seem about twice as vulnerable as men, yet a related headache called the cluster (because it strikes repeatedly over several hours) most often affects tall, hard-driving men. For years the standard treatment for chronic headaches was a combination of the drug ergotamine tartrate and caffeine (Cafergot), which acts to constrict the expanded blood vessels...