Word: colons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ted Schwinden won the top job after upsetting Governor Thomas Judge in the primary. It may be days before the outcome is known in Puerto Rico, where Statehood Advocate and incumbent Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo finished in a virtual dead heat with former Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, who favors keeping the island's commonwealth status...
...with a victory in the 100-meter dash; Wells needed a closing rush to edge out Cuba's Silvio Leonard in the relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon, set an Olympic record in winning the javelin. Jaak Uudmae, 25, of the Soviet Union, won the triple jump, foiling Teammate Victor Saneyev's bid to win four consecutive golds in the event. Saneyev, 34, who first won the triple jump in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, finished...
...Examination of the rectum and colon with a sigmoidoscope, previously called for annually for people over 40, is now suggested every three to five years (after two negative tests a year apart) in those over 50. The A.C.S. recommendation for digital rectal examinations every year from age 40 on remains unchanged...
...those known to be caused by dioxin poisoning shortly after the servicemen returned to the U.S., but they and their doctors long failed to connect their illnesses to Agent Orange. After reading about the Seveso incident, however, Paul Reutershan, a veteran who was suffering from cancer of the colon, filed suit in 1977. He died the next year, at age 28, but by then Victor Yannacone Jr., the lawyer who had brought the 1966 suit that helped ban DDT, had taken up his case. The defendants are Dow Chemical Co., Monsanto Co., Thompson-Hayward Chemical Co., Hercules Inc. and Diamond...