Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior lecturer for both English and Expository Writing addressed freshmen in a new effort to avoid plagiarism, a practice that sends roughly one dozen students, many of them Yardlings, to the Administrative Board each year...
...warm-up highlights more than two dozen athletes who are at the top of their sport, a television viewer's guide to key events, and an offbeat look at Seoul by Contributor Pico Iyer, whose recent book, Video Night in Kathmandu, examines the inroads of Western popular culture throughout Asia. Perhaps the most arresting feature of the special section is photographic. Picture Researcher Dorothy Affa Ames began assigning photographers to cover pre- Olympic meets in April, and since then has edited 5,000 pictures provided by a dozen photojournalists and a score of photo agencies. A former professional photographer, Affa...
...away as Denver, 400 miles southeast. The worst flare-up, on Wednesday, roared through 56,000 acres in six hours and pushed to within a mile of the geyser. Flames 200 ft. high swooped down on a village not far from the Old Faithful Inn, destroying more than a dozen buildings. The fires have ruined 1.2 million acres of Yellowstone and adjoining national forests. As high winds threatened to pick up again at week's end, residents of nearby Silver Gate and Cooke City, Mont., were evacuated. Montana Governor Ted Schwinden banned hiking, fishing and camping in his state...
Four years is a long time in an athlete's career, and eight years at a world-class level of competition is almost an eternity. Yet it is a dozen years since U.S. and Soviet teams met at a Summer Olympics. Historians will long debate President Carter's 1980 decision following the invasion of Afghanistan to snub the only Olympics ever held in the Soviet Union. They will debate as well whether the Soviets avoided Los Angeles four years later out of fear about security, as claimed, or as retaliatory tit for tat. To most athletes, the underlying stratagems...
...motorcades and media events, Dukakis and Bush had to respond to questions from ordinary citizens. These days, such real-life , voters are useful only as scenic backdrops. That is why it was striking on Labor Day morning when Dukakis tried to hold an informal town meeting with a few dozen voters in South Philadelphia. The questions on schools and the environment were serious, but so was the jeering from 100 antiabortion protesters, who turned a picturesque event into near chaos. The moral: a Dukakis aide predicts, "There aren't going to be too many events like that...