Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Governor Mario Cuomo observes that what Dinkins does with his victory is "more relevant" than the number of votes that carried him into office. If the new mayor is to justify the hopes invested in him, he will have to display something more than the clubby conciliation that marked his previous career. The problems of crime, drugs, homelessness and substandard education cry out for solution or at least amelioration. The infrastructure is literally blowing up, with a seemingly endless series of water-main explosions. Especially worrying are Dinkins' close ties to powerful labor unions, some of which may clamor...
...higher incidence of this wasting affliction of the mind. One reason is the difficulty of diagnosis. Since there is no perfect test for the disease -- except upon autopsy -- doctors' estimates of who does or does not have it must rely on subjective assessments. As these methods improve, the number of people with the disease appears to increase...
...difficult to elicit farmers' cooperation because elephants often destroy farm and forest lands. And because of agricultural expansion and an increase in the number of individual farms, elephant habitats are diminishing, and farmers are generally not committed to wildlife or land conservation...
Statistics show that a significant number of Harvard Law graduates who do enter private law directly become disenchanted with the corporate world and leave it for public-service law after five years...
Zuromskis also said that cases have been reported in which people inoculated between 1967 and 1980 had developed measles, despite the belief that that particular vaccine was fully effective. "People who had proper vaccine got measles. It is possible that a small number of people got a vaccine that may have been less that 100 percent effective," he said...