Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment later, the terrorist detonated 12,000 Ibs. of explosives. The explosives had been wrapped around gas cylinders and placed on a 7-in. floor of concrete covered with an inch-thick slab of solid marble in order to direct the intensity of the blast upward. Even so, the explosive force drove the truck bed 8 ft. down into the earth...
Galas. Or: The Life and Hard Times of Maria Callas. Leave it to off-off-Broadway's Charles Ludlam-playwright, producer, director and, in the title role, every inch a diva-to put the art back into commedia dell'arte...
...jolly. There is little doubt about it. This year has been one of unexpectedly vigorous growth, declining unemployment and low inflation. And TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week in Manhattan, sees business remaining strong next year, while the jobless rate continues to fall and prices inch up only slightly. With an eye toward next year's presidential campaign, Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., economic consulting firm, concluded: "The 1984 outlook is very nice, at least for a Republican...
...Italian patients. Half were treated with a mastectomy and half with a quadrectomy, plus radiation if the malignancy extended to lymph nodes under the arm. All of the women in the study had a very early stage of breast cancer, with tumors measuring less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. A decade after treatment, 96% of the women in both groups were alive and apparently healthy. Significantly, the study defied the longstanding dictum that anything short of a mastectomy increases the risk that cancer will recur. In fact, the incidence of tumor recurrence was the same in both...
...handicapped in the pool by their size. Fasi, 5-ft., 8-in. and 155 pounds, is slightly bigger. Munatones said in an interview that no matter how big he said he was, Fasi would claim to be an inch bigger and 10 pounds heavier, so he declined to comment. Fasi, indeed, says his cohort stands about 5-ft., 7-in. and weighs 145 pounds...