Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions that do not depend on the shuttle, could make 1989 the most eventful year...
Invisible behind the plethora of pages in the OED2 are hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed...
...journey north is harrowing enough. But just across the border in California, they encounter a final and at times fatal obstacle. Weary and bewildered, pursued by the Border Patrol and sometimes carrying small children, as many as 150 people a night dart out into the hurtling freeway traffic. Already, seven fatalities have been reported this year. Since the body count began in 1985, the total has reached an alarming...
Several unsuccessful attempts to implant them in her uterus followed. Meanwhile the marriage disintegrated. Last month, when the couple began divorce proceedings, seven of the fertilized eggs remained in cold storage at Knoxville's Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Now a custody battle is shaping up that may make the Baby M. case look simple by comparison: a court in Blount County, Tenn., must decide who gets the eggs...
Fish's squads have won seven national championships, eight Ivy titles, seven six-man titles and three five-man championships. The seven other current Ivy League coaches have combined for five Ivy and national titles...