Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sixth-seeded team of Cooper and deLone reached the quarterfinals of the doubles competition, where they lost to the number-two seeds, Penn State's Kelly Ervin and Claudia Karebedian...
...Butts, a second-year student at Harvard. "And people often come in with an interest in public interest, but with the emphasis here on corporate law, they don't always leave with that attitude. There's heavy recruiting by large, high-paying firms, and students see an insurmountable number of loans they need...
However, the number-one vote is of particular importance. A candidate who does not receive a strong base of first-choice votes tomorrow will likely be out of the running; no amount of tranfer votes will make up the difference...
This is not the picture of the crack epidemic portrayed by the nightly news. On TV, crack addicts are almost invariably blacks and Hispanics from the ghetto. In real life, the problem is much broader: the number of white middle- and upper-class crack users may equal -- or even exceed -- the total from poor minority communities. No government studies break down crack use by economic status, but William Hopkins, a leading narcotics expert working for the state of New York, estimates that 70% of New York City's drug users are affluent. Across the U.S., drug counselors report rising numbers...
...problem of crack abuse among the affluent is especially disturbing because it comes at a time when the middle class seemed to be weaning itself from recreational drugs. Between 1985 and 1988, the number of casual drug users in the U.S. dropped from 23 million to 14.5 million, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But according to another federal study, the number of Americans using crack cocaine at least once a week increased by one- third during that period, from under 650,000 to more than 860,000. "The poor people in the ghetto aren't buying...