Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owners favored the move to fall. Taubman's son Robert voted against it on behalf of his father, partly because the Panthers will have to compete with the N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions for playing dates in the Silverdome. Myles Tanenbaum, owner of the champion Philadelphia Stars, said that the shift will force his team to leave Philadelphia for Baltimore to avoid scheduling conflicts with the N.F.L.'s Philadelphia Eagles...
...Philadelphia Fertility Institute is testing a technique that employs the glass-column race track and Sephadex, a gelatinous powder used to filter impurities from insulin and other hormones. In this case, the X-bearing sperm are the first to reach the bottom of the test tube, perhaps because they are slightly heavier than Y sperm. Results in eleven pregnancies are encouraging: seven girls and one set of male-female twins. Nonetheless, a larger number of pregnancies will be needed before the method is proven...
There was Meldrick Taylor, 17, who missed his high school graduation to make the team. Raised in Philadelphia, a city with impeccable boxing bloodlines (Smokin' Joe Frazier, et al.), Taylor is a good-looking fighter who can slip a punch, hit hard with both hands and move well. In his semifinal bout with Venezuelan Omar Catari Peraza, Taylor floored him in Round 2 with a straight right and went on to win unanimously. Nigerian Peter Konyegwachie gave Taylor all he could handle in a hotly contested final, but Taylor, surprisingly, won a unanimous verdict. His flamboyant teammate Whitaker...
Even so, referring to a woman simply by her surname still bothers some readers. The Philadelphia Inquirer, which has a new policy eliminating honorifics in most cases, recently received a bundle of letters for referring to Nancy Reagan as "Reagan." Says John V.R. Bull, the paper's ombudsman: "People thought it showed a lack of respect...
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