Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record, it was on Wednesday, Nov. 23, that Kennebunkport met its first metal detector. Bush was to address his friends and neighbors -- folks like Booth Chick and Carl Bartlett -- on the town green, and his security men set one up on Ocean Avenue to screen the audience. He had survived more than 60 summers in this lovely coastal Maine town without a single metal detector, but then he never was President-elect. Trouble was, there were too many people for the lone detector. The police finally said the hell with it, just before Bush began, and let everyone...
Harvard lost several key players to graduation, including its first and second all-time leading scorers, Sharon Hayes and Barbarann Keffer. However, the younger members of the team have more than met the challenge...
...next day, Harvard traveled to Hammeenlinna and met Finland's fifth-best team, HPK, and Captain Hannu Kuronen, who tallied six points. Harvard forwards C.J. Young and Ed Krayer scored the Crimson's two goals of the game in the third period...
...ozone layer over Antarctica. Although the size of the hole varies with the seasons and weather patterns, at times Antarctic ozone has been depleted by as much as 50% in some spots. As a result of this disturbing development, 24 nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, met in Montreal two summers ago and agreed to cut back on CFCs. The so-called Montreal Protocol is designed to achieve a 35% net reduction in worldwide CFC production...
...witnessed a parade of defeated humanity in his quarter-century of giving on skid row. He has offered gloves to his former professor at Brooklyn College and to a once famous baritone at the Metropolitan Opera, recognized by Greenberg from his days as a youthful walk-on at the Met. Most of the people he meets are confused, seemingly uncertain of where they are or what they are doing. The more frightened refuse the gloves, and he will follow them for several blocks, insisting, "They're a gift. I really want you to have them." One elderly man finally stopped...