Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least half of the union's decision makes absolute sense. But there still is one lingering question: Why limit eligiblity for the transition team vote to those members who signed union cards before the May 17 election? The union says it did so because there has not been an organizing drive--with cards distributed to workers--since then. Yet, some have signed cards since then...
...made their season by winning in a meet that was less important to us than others down the road, like Princeton and Easterns. It's frustrating to lose like that, but we have to keep the goals of the season in mind. There are a full two-and-one-half months until Easterns and we expect to win there...
Watson set a meet record with his time of 1:52.95 in the backstroke. The defending Eastern champion in the event, Watson touched one-half second ahead of the nearest Army rival to give the Crimson a much-needed emotional boost...
...number expected. Normally, about 600,000 aliens come to the U.S. each year to pick crops and work on farms. To qualify for amnesty, the aliens must show they did such work for 90 days between May 1, 1985, and May 1, 1986. So it seems that at least half the applications were phony...
...clear: the lower the LDL, the lower the risk of heart disease. For most people in the Western world, basic changes in eating habits and life-style can drastically reduce or eliminate the threat of heart attack. Declares Dr. Bernadine Healy, president of the American Heart Association: "More than half the adult population has within its own power the ability to decrease its chances of getting heart disease." That fact alone should make everyone take heart...