Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Florence Grossman of Hicksville, N.Y., head of the national Al "adoption group" in charge of Ahsan's case, said his release was "a rare and unusual occurence in Pakistan" because of what she said was the poor human rights record in that country...
...Crimson doubled the margin 14 minute later with a rare power play goal in its last 30 man-up chances. Harvard had scored just once Nine out of 10 times this year, the icemen haven't scored on a power play...
Cinderella stories are rare on Fleet Street. Up until 1981, Reuters had not paid out a pence in dividends for 41 years. But in the past three years, profits at the 132-year-old news agency have soared. The company paid $84 per share in 1982, and is expected to pay about $135 per share for 1983. Once the company goes public, each of those shares, once considered almost valueless, may be worth as much...
Harvard's rare books collections are growing at a pace which far exceeds present library space. In fact, many curators mentioned that most of a given library's collection is currently taken from the shelves of regular open-stack libraries on campus...
With communications and the computer Chip changing the importance of printing and book binding. Harvard's rare books collections preserve a lost art form and scholarly resources...