Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no coat of arms on the flask, but somewhere in one of Britain's hospitals a convalescent patient has some of the world's most exclusive blood flowing through his or her veins. The regal donor of the precious stuff was Prince Charles, 36, who has become the first member of the royal family ever to give blood, in his case, O Rh-negative. The unprecedented puncturing of royalty was to reassure Britons after a nationwide scare about AIDS caused a drop in donations. At the North London Transfusion Center, the Prince was asked whether he was homosexual...
...Wars system that the Soviets could counter only by extraordinary, costly and dangerous countermeasures. That would probably bring both nations, and the world, to a truly fateful decision: an arms race surpassing anything thus far imagined, or an arms-control deal reducing all categories of weapons. There would be precious little in between...
When Texas Oilmen Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother William Herbert went headlong into the silver market in 1979 and 1980, they pushed the value of the precious metal from $6 to $50 per oz. and accumulated a hoard worth about $10 billion. That forced up the cost of everything from photographic film to jewelry, and tempted thousands of Americans to sell the family sterling. But the Hunts lost as much as $1 billion in a day in early 1980, when the speculative bubble burst and silver prices collapsed. Five years later, the Hunt family's woes continue to grow...
Haydon meanwhile was "recovering very nicely," according to DeVries, though suffering from a mild kidney problem and continued weakness from loss of weight. Without the implant, "he wouldn't be here today," said Juanita Haydon. "Every day is precious...
...onetime rip-roaring mining town in the San Juan Mountains has never quite been a backwater. Butch Cassidy came by to rob one of its banks, and William Jennings Bryan stopped off to say a few words. The local mines used to yield gold, silver and other precious metals, but the last of the major ones closed...