Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game ended with Mitchell stealing an inbounds pass and being tripped at half court. But only the final buzzer, no whistle, was heard as Mitchell fell to the court, ending his greatest game ever...
...game for first place against Dartmouth, Mitchell's 10 points sparked a 22-3 Harvard run in the second half, converting a 13-point Big Green lead into a six-point Crimson advantage with only four minutes left in the game...
...last week overrode a National Security Council recommendation, and his own general opposition to farm-trade supports, to approve a federally subsidized sale of $250 million worth of American wheat to the Soviet Union. But according to farm-state Congressmen, he made the $12 million subsidy available on only half the wheat the Soviets wanted to buy. The White House denies that, but such a move would be a typical Bush half-a- loaf compromise between the views of the Agriculture Department, which wants to assist U.S. farmers in competing against European export subsidies, and the NSC, which contends that...
...rain. Vibrations from traffic produce cracks in the monuments. More serious still is the damage caused by water. An estimated 80% of Cairo's incoming water supply escapes from leaking pipes into the ground. And the aging sewerage system, built 75 years ago to serve a population of half a million, is choking on the wastes of 13 million. Much of the wastewater overflows into the soil...
...evidence that they are acting out of fiscal need, not cruel disregard for human suffering. In Alameda, roughly 75% of the county's $278 million health-care budget comes from state and federal sources. But that money is drying up. For example, state funds are currently only about one-half of what the county received in 1982. Health administrators argue that rationing is a pointed way of telling legislators they must bear the responsibility for their budgetary decisions...