Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report also indicates that crack's evil influence has tripled the number of child abuse cases involving parents under the influence of drugs. The number of reported cases has swelled over the past five years from 2627 to nearly...
Joyner's not on an ego trip like past Olympic winners. She didn't have 20 bodyguards pushing away autograph-seekers. She was just with her husband, Al Joyner. She signed autograph after autograph, and took picture after picture. She is a charismatic person...
...responsible for Harvard hockey's schedule? Who is responsible, every year at Beanpot time, for inflicting this cruel and unusual punishment on Harvard hockey fans, on our peerless coach, Bill Cleary, and, what is even more important, on the excellent hockey teams Bill has turned out the past two decades...
...nightmare seems like something out of the Middle Ages: an army of voracious rats emerges from Boston's sewer system, inspiring fear and loathing around the city. The rodents stream past Faneuil Hall, invading the festive food booths of Quincy Market. Soon the rats spread across Boston Common to the Massachusetts statehouse and move into the town houses in tony Back Bay. As panic rises, the assault becomes the biggest threat to the Boston area since Paul Revere warned that the British were coming...
Norton's insights come from first-hand research. For the past six years, she has been regularly videotaping, from infancy, about 40 children born to young mothers living in the most blighted, impoverished pockets of Chicago. She lets her camera roll for up to four hours at a time, capturing the ordinary rhythms and interactions of a child's life at home. Reviewing thousands of hours of ) tapes, Norton found that references to time were rare. Most parents hardly ever provided instructions like "Finish lunch so you can see your favorite TV program at 1:30," or even sequential statements...