Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across from the farmers' market in St. Louis, it has been a slow day. A couple of dozen signatures, maybe a mind or two opened. Or closed. The Greenpeacers take down their banners saying STOP FACTORY FARMS! and BAN FACTORY TRAWLERS! The bus eases away from the curb and rumbles toward Lexington...
...much HD on your TV. The FCC has mandated that the major network affiliates in the 10 largest U.S. markets (ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC) must be ready for digital broadcasts by May 1, 1999. The top 30 must be geared up six months after that. Meanwhile, about three dozen stations will voluntarily begin digital broadcasts this November...
...actors in New York City and Los Angeles without any luck, until along came Russell, who had previously appeared most prominently in Malibu Shores, an Aaron Spelling drama that ran on NBC during the 1996 season. Russell says she was nervous at the audition, seeing more than a dozen actors go in before her, and she remembers calling her agent to complain, "I'm not going to be great after waiting for two hours...
Tell that to my wife. After a few dozen games of Bust-A-Move, she yawns, displaces the cat and climbs into bed. Pinky sidles up beside me, and I fire up Blitz. I place his mutant paw on the controller. "No cheating," I say. It's lonely living among women...
...This concern is underscored by the fact that Democratic fund raising is not meeting expectations while G.O.P. coffers are bulging to the point where the party is able to give even its long-shot candidates the maximum amount allowed by law. Its election committee has decided to subsidize a dozen races in which G.O.P. candidates were considered lost causes just a month...