Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon, and an hour later that evening, he was free of the 323-lb., air-driven unit that normally runs the heart, and was hooked up to a small, 11-Ib. device encased in a leather shoulder bag. The portable system worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook his hand. Then he asked for some ice cream...
First Chicago admitted last week that the Securities and Exchange Commission is also investigating the bank's huge third-quarter loss. Among other things, the SEC is trying to determine whether the bank improperly put off declaring the bad loans in order to protect its profits...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala--The Southeastern Conference knocked No. 4 Florida out of the bowl picture yesterday but agreed to wait until next year before deciding if the Gators, charged with NCAA rules violations, can keep their first SEC football crown...
...Most Americans," says Harvard Political Scientist Gary Orren, "would get their political information from two sources: either from the Pepsi-Cola-like ads that the candidates put out-and boy, they're getting good at it!-or through little snippets that are no longer than 1 min. 20 sec. on the nightly TV news." For all their artificiality, the debates offer voters a rare chance to see the candidates in a situation they do not totally control, and to gauge how they react to pressure and deal with the unexpected...
...Galman shoot Aquino near by. Instantly, said De Guzman, he pumped seven bullets into the alleged assassin. Then his colleagues began firing too. Tapes, however, revealed that De Guzman's testimony took no account at all of an opening flurry of five shots, which was followed, after 17 sec. of silence, by a second fusillade. Meanwhile, photographs showed "positively, unerringly and incontrovertibly" that there was no movement whatsoever in or around the van during the opening five-shot salvo. In short, the memo concluded, De Guzman's account, which was corroborated by 13 other soldiers under oath...