Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teddy Jordache of Great Britain was second in 21:45.74, with Kris Carlson of Weston third...
...Penn A.C., loaded with world-class rowers, won the men's championship eights for the second year in a row. Penn won in 15:34.16, followed by the Tideway Scullers of England in 15:50.87, and Nottingham County Rowing Association of England...
...members of the other two families are even more elusive. Some have never been directly observed, and the others have only been spotted fleetingly in cosmic rays or high-energy particle accelerators. The second family consists of so-called "charmed" and "strange" quarks, muons and muon neutrinos. The third is made up of "top" and "bottom" quarks, tau particles and tau neutrinos. Last week's announcements do not preclude the possibility that other types of particles could be discovered, but they raise the odds against that happening, by Stanford's estimate, to better than...
...star-crossed: Friday the 13th in the month of October, on the eve of the second anniversary of a devastating market crash. "I'm telling you, psychology is really funny. People get crazy in situations like that," said portfolio strategist Elaine Garzarelli. Last week Friday the 13th lived up to its frightful reputation. After drifting lower at a sleepy pace for most of the day, the Dow Jones industrial average abruptly lurched into a hair- raising sky dive in the final hour of trading. By the time the 4 p.m. closing bell halted the rout, the index had dropped...
...sell-off was the sharpest since the market plunged 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987. In terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia brokerage firm. "People are dumping < everything. A great deal of money is being lost...