Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REALLY big: numbers played an integral role in both New York and San Francisco. Perhaps academics who complain of America's mathematical illiteracy will be encouraged. A disaster is not worth getting excited about, it seems, until a number has been attached...
...case of the stock market, such a numerical need is perfectly logical. The number was the story: down 190.58 points. The way in which numbers are expected to grow into bigger numbers, however, is not so straightforward. Exciting numbers--200, 300, 400, 500--flitted through American minds all weekend. In the end, a combination of relief and disappointment greeted Monday's actual closing figure: back up 88.12 points...
California's big number was 6.9. But either a Richter scale is too abstract, or the numbers it produces aren't satisfyingly meaty enough. Right from the beginning, Ted Koppel was begging for some casualty counts that he could spread around...
Nonetheless, Hispanics, expected to become the country's largest minority early in the next century, are being courted by a record number of publications and television news shows. Roughly 145 Spanish-language newspapers and magazines are published in the U.S. In addition, there are some 30 bilingual or English-language publications aimed at Hispanic readers. More than 200 radio stations and approximately 50 television stations broadcast some news and talk shows in Spanish. Their potential audience is vast: the - Hispanic-American community totals 23 million and is growing faster than the general population...
...first step toward a softening of its policies was already more than many had anticipated. Just two days earlier, President Erich Honecker, 77, had all but threatened a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown to halt the demonstrations that were spreading like a virus from city to city. But after the number of protesters multiplied into the tens of thousands, the Politburo announced a newfound willingness to discuss limited reforms. The sudden shift not only indicated a crack in one of the East bloc's most ossified regimes, but also spurred speculation that the ruling party was in disarray -- and that Honecker...