Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Okay, assume that John pitches for the next 20 seasons and decides to retire at the ripe age of 66. If he averages 10 wins and 100 strikeouts each season, he would finish his career with 487 wins and 4 227 strikeouts...
...cancers and weakened immune systems in humans and other animals, as well as to damage to plants. Data-gathering flights in the Antarctic in 1987 made the connection between CFCs and ozone destruction all but certain. After a similar expedition through Arctic skies last month, scientists said conditions are ripe for a similar hole to develop over the northern regions this spring...
...visit to Tehran, meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sought to capitalize on the affair, saying "conditions are ripe" for improved Soviet-Iranian ties...
Skocpol also emphasized what she felt were outward signs of uncertainty from the new Bush administration. She cited Bush's new rhetoric on child care, Jack Kemp's on a housing solution, and Elizabeth Dole's backing of certain unions as signals that the "time is ripe for Democratic Socialists to mobilize public opinion...
...concern that development is making inroads into neighborhoods has been growing for several years. A 1984 study commissioned jointly by the University and the city's Community Development Department identified several sites in the Harvard Square area that were ripe for redevelopment...