Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Worse, hundreds of people thought they had won the grand prize: a $17,000 Dodge Caravan. In response to customer complaints, the food giant offered a compromise: $250 in cash for winners of the van, lesser amounts for the other winners, and a drawing for four times the original number of prizes...
...Ronald Reagan's main goals as President was to put his conservative stamp on the federal judiciary. His success on that score was dazzling. Thanks to the large number of openings that occurred during his two terms in the White House, Reagan was able to appoint 346 federal judges -- more than any other President in American history. "It is one of his most enduring legacies, and one of his most significant," says William Bradford Reynolds, the controversial former Assistant Attorney General for civil rights in the Reagan Administration...
...apparatus, would be filled by the Communist-controlled Parliament. Solidarity allowed the party and its allies a guaranteed majority on condition that the next legislative elections, to be held in four years, are fully competitive and that the President is popularly elected by 1995. The union also extracted a number of other concessions, including legalization of the Roman Catholic Church and establishment of an opposition press...
...Soviet history. The explosion thrust a pillar of fire into the nighttime Siberian skies that was visible to observers more than 60 miles away. The bodies of 137 of the 1,200 passengers aboard the trains were recovered, 53 more died en route to the hospital and an unknown number were completely incinerated in the blast, making a precise toll impossible. More than 700 passengers and crew, many of them horribly burned, required hospitalization. The victims included many children on their way to summer camps on the Black Sea. On Saturday a train traveling from that resort area crashed into...
...many children are enough? For Italian women between 15 and 49, the average number these days is 1.3, one of the world's lowest fertility rates and especially remarkable for a nominally Roman Catholic country...