Word: five
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly not absurd--although it may be unusual--to suggest that the city of Cambridge is actually more important than Harvard University. The number of Cambridge residents, for instance, is more than five times as great as the number of Harvard students. And while Harvard undergraduates are usually assured of housing for four year, most Cambridge residents possess no such guarantee...
...Jackie Hymans did slap the ball into the Harvard goal with eight seconds remaining in the game, but the score didn't count because she was offside by five feet...
...reason the President dislikes the Democratic approach is its cost: $22 billion over the next five years, including $8 billion in direct grants to the states. Another is the conservative belief that the measure is an unwarranted government intrusion into family decision making. House minority whip Newt - Gingrich denounced the bill for being "essentially against mothers staying at home...
...storage room in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where poaching has been rampant, bears witness to this carnage. Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper...
...many of Africa's poachers operate with the cold precision of a crack military unit. They are well armed and organized into gangs of up to ten men. Their weapons, often AK-47 assault rifles, can pepper a herd with 30 rounds in less than five seconds. Frequently they are ex-army men. When they run into antipoaching units, they respond as trained soldiers would, withdrawing and firing, then scattering and rendezvousing hours or days later at prearranged sites. In Angola rebels help finance military operations with ivory. Among the larger bands of poachers, some men are designated as cooks...