Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-dozen TIME reporters who spoke to the businesswomen behind the stats heard tales both harrowing and inspiring. "They have frequently beaten the odds," says Whitaker, "working with less capital, less training and fewer contacts than their male peers. They've created their own opportunities." Few saw their success as a triumph for their sex. "Most women entrepreneurs like to think of themselves as business people first and females second," says Reporter Blake Hallanan, who conducted interviews in the West and Southwest. Washington Correspondent Gisela Bolte agrees: "The women did not strike me as profeminist or antifeminist. Their only cause...
...mountain states and along the West Coast, record temperatures have brought the fire season in two months early. Montana has suffered through more than a dozen significant forest and range fires this month, including a 23,000-acre burn on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Brush and desert fires have blackened more than 8,000 acres in California, Idaho, Washington and Utah. Forest fires may be the most immediate of California's water problems, but the long-range crisis of a huge, thirsty population competing for limited supplies of water dramatically raises fundamental questions about life and land in the Golden...
Giorgio was the pioneer of scent strips, but more than a dozen other manufacturers have followed suit, since the tactic seems to work wonders. Fragrance sales, which fell in the early 1980s, have steadily risen for the past five years, according to the Fragrance Foundation. Scent strips have become so effective that they are challenging department stores as the primary means for introducing and sampling new fragrances. For readers who cannot make it to the nearest posh department store, the ads provide a toll-free 800 number to call to buy the product from the privacy of their living room...
Ozal ducked under the podium and delegates scrambled to get out of the Ataturk convention hall as bullets fired by security guards sprayed the room. More than a dozen people were wounded by gunfire, and several were injured in the stampede. The would-be assassin was immediately captured. He was identified as Kartal Demirag, a Turk who had recently escaped from prison, where he was being held for attempted murder. Ozal, who later had three stitches in his hand, returned to the podium to tell cheering delegates, "No one can take away the life given by God except God himself...
...market price of apples. Conversely, it would seem that an apple tree is a work of art, a rhapsody in green and white. And it grows -- this is the miracle -- from a little brown seed no more than half an inch long, of which there are half a dozen inside every apple core that you throw into the garbage pail...