Word: major
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class entered its last year at Harvard, the effects of the GI Bill became less noticeable. Whereas the years before had seen unprecedented peaks in enrollment, 1948 and 1949 saw major drops...
Winning the Harvard-Yale game in 1948 was ahighlight of the class's experience at Harvard.The Game, which was one of the major social eventsof the year, invariably sold out, slowing trafficto a standstill for blocks around the Stadium...
...their 70s, many women begin to suffer fractures. Men are not likely to reach that stage until they are in their 80s, and because comparatively few men have lived to be octogenarians, their risk has been more theoretical than real. But as men live longer, osteoporosis will be a major problem for both sexes...
...under the pressure of a highly publicized investigation. Says New York City police lieutenant Eric Adams, co-founder of One Hundred Blacks in Law Enforcement: "If a civilian were to see another civilian sodomize a person and wait days or weeks to say anything, that could be considered a major crime...
...Chinese government. That immediately raised suspicion among White House and CIA officials that Beijing, for some unfathomable reason, may have been conducting a disinformation campaign to make Washington believe it had the U.S.'s most precious military secrets. The document, what's more, is cited as a major piece of evidence that China filched designs for four other warheads "sometime prior" to 1995. To this day, neither the intelligence community nor arms-control experts know whether China got its hands on any detailed specifications or blueprints for them...