Word: oz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blakey, the couple's first child, weighing 8 lbs., 5 oz., and measuring 21 in., is the first resident baby in Adams House in more than 10 years, according to Mark Bessire. She was born last Wednesday afternoon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...
Still, the jump in price spread chaos across the market as Buffett called for delivery of more than 42 million oz. of the silver he had bought--after already having some 87 million oz. in tow. Panicky short sellers, who had borrowed silver and sold it in the expectation that the price would fall, had to swallow huge losses to complete the deals. Major buyers of silver like Eastman Kodak, which processes millions of ounces a year into film, faced big increases in raw-material costs. And everywhere families began eyeing grandma's precious flatware as a possible source...
...last week in the silver market, where prices spiked to a nine-year high after Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, disclosed that he had taken a major shine to the metal and bought up 129.7 million oz. of the stuff. That amounts to 37% of the world's aboveground stock of raw silver, according to the CPM group, a commodities and precious-metals consulting firm...
...combination of trial and talk-show retinues could bring more than $250,000 into local hotels, restaurants and shops. Until now, one of the most popular reasons to visit Amarillo, where a feedlot-slaughterhouse is the single biggest employer, was the Big Texan restaurant, where the 72-oz. steak is free for anyone who can polish it off in one hour...
...Bravest New Family Faith and a fertility drug delivered seven healthy babies to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowa. Ranging from 2 lbs. 5 oz. to 3 lbs. 4 oz., the famous infants will remain in the hospital through January. Having survived the attendant media circus, Mom and Dad are recovering at home with first child Mikayla...