Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat up a psychiatrist and mailed a death threat to Ronald Reagan. Bosket claims to have committed 2,000 crimes by the time...
...Huggin Hill Baths were designated a protected archaeological site by the government years ago. But in 1988 the Department of the Environment granted a development company permission to build a seven-story office complex on the west end of the ruins. The government believed the site had already been irretrievably damaged by construction in the 1960s. But last January the archaeological team discovered a large room with central heating, vaulted semicircular recesses and a mosaic floor...
...find the Crimson's reporting in this matter both mind-boggling and insulting. To suggest that I would reverse, on the basis of a poll, a position which I had spent seven months researching and debating before deciding to support, is ridiculous. In contrast to the four positions on the issue taken by the council's illustrious chair, I remained firm, once I had fully considered the issue, in my initial stance, confidant that I had correctly weighed the multitude of questions raised by ROTC. I had already scheduled a strategy meeting for the next day with other council leaders...
After Big Green running back David Clark set an Ivy League record by scoring on a 97-yd. touchdown run and wide receiver Craig Morton caught seven passes for 199 yards, those chances disappeared...
...inaugural address, Caperton stunned the legislature by calling it into emergency session, declaring West Virginia to be "in crisis." During his first three months he has managed to reduce the number of state offices and commissions from 150 to seven. Confronted by a $230 million deficit and a scandalous $280 million loss in state pension funds, he persuaded lawmakers to raise taxes on groceries and gasoline. He introduced an innovative health- cost-containment plan for state employees, arranged for payment of West Virginia's debts and put through his own radical restructuring of the state's education system, including larger...