Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, African nations have resisted an ivory ban, but increasingly they realize that the decimation of the elephant herds poses a serious threat to their tourist business. Last month Tanzania and seven other African countries called for an amendment to the 102-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species that would make the ivory trade illegal worldwide. The amendment is expected to be approved at an October meeting in Geneva and to go into effect next January. But between now and then, conservationists contend, poachers may go on a rampage, killing elephants wholesale, so nations should unilaterally forbid imports...
...time he earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1972, Tobias had published the first of his seven books. Among them: Fire and Ice, a biography of Revlon co-founder Charles Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the insurance industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, all big sellers. A prolific contributor to New York, Esquire and other magazines, Tobias has also written a computer program, Managing Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...pentamidine. In 1982 less than 30% of gay men diagnosed with AIDS in New York City lived more than 18 months. By 1987, after the introduction of AZT, survival at 18 months jumped to 62.9%. Says Michael Callen, a singer and songwriter who has had the disease for seven years: "We need to change our conception of AIDS. Not everyone dies of AIDS." Today about 70% of all AIDS deaths result from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. But studies reported in Montreal confirm that pentamidine inhaled directly into the lungs is dramatically effective in preventing the pneumonia from developing. Federal health officials...
...making new contributions -- but it's expensive to get old ones out. So don't think you'll just pocket that 12% for a year and then move on to something else. If you withdraw your money, Amex charges a penalty, 7% the first year, which gradually evaporates in seven years. But there's also the 10% IRS penalty on withdrawals before age 59 1/2 and, whatever your age, the income tax due on the interest your funds have earned...
...government to the bargaining table was the same thing that sparked the popular uprisings of 1956, 1970 and 1981: economics. Although the regime could drive Solidarity underground, it could not make the country's hopelessly inefficient factories produce more or put food on empty grocery shelves. For more than seven years, Jaruzelski tried to carry out economic reforms while refusing to negotiate with Solidarity or democratize the political structure. The results were dismal: industrial production fell steadily, while the foreign debt climbed to $39.2 billion and inflation crept toward 100%. When public discontent erupted in a series of nationwide strikes...