Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chalkboard: What a difference a period makes. Washington found this out with a devastating five-touchdown second quarter in the Super Bowl, and Harvard found this out with a dominating third period against Brown January...
...watched the entire Super Bowl broadcast from pre-game to postgame, you endured only 60 minutes of actual live football, but you saw more than 180 commercials comprising more than 90 minutes of advertising messages. And except for the action-packed second quarter of the game, the commercials provided most of the program's thrills...
...quarter-century, Detroit has been the scene of one of the nation's bitterest newspaper wars. All-out efforts by the afternoon News and the morning Free Press to beat each other into submission cost millions and kept newsstand prices and advertising rates at rock bottom. Then two years ago both papers agreed to an odd sort of truce. Gannett Co., owner of the News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., owner of the Free Press, decided to take advantage of a federal law designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations...
...spill in a park less than a quarter mile from the Harvard athletic fields caused little environmental damage, a state official said yesterday...
...underdeveloped swatches of land in the world. Today half of Gaza's residents have running water, compared with 14% two decades ago. Nearly 80% own refrigerators and television sets, up from 3%. In the West Bank more than four-fifths of the homes have electricity, in contrast to one-quarter 20 years ago. Per capita income rose in the West Bank from $300 in 1968 to $1,400 today, and in Gaza from $100 to about $1,000. Though the territories' health-care system is still inferior to that of Israel, an Israeli-sponsored overhaul has helped raise life expectancy...