Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biblical times, a famed Pharaoh once dreamed of seven fat years of plenty followed by seven lean years of want. With the U.S. economy in the seventh year of a record peacetime expansion, signs are multiplying that for many Americans the fat times are coming to an end. In their place, economists prophesy everything from a soft landing, which could mean weak growth but little pain, to the ominous prospect of a deep recession. Few seers doubt, however, that a slowdown is at hand. "This has been a long expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Company Economic...
Vogueing began in the 1960s in Harlem, where transvestites parodied Seventh Avenue by calling their social clubs houses and holding annual balls that featured the dance style. Voguers from clubs like the House of Dupree practiced their steps in downtown discos, spreading the craze. Myra Christopher, a salesclerk in designer Patricia Field's New York City boutique, helped vogueing flourish after she went to a ball in the winter of 1987. Says she: "Here were these kids getting prizes and trophies for things they get made fun of for in the real world." She persuaded her boss to start...
...committees to serving as head tutors and thesis advisers, many junior faculty members say they are overburdened with the day-to-day responsibilities of the undergraduate program. And, they add, such work gets no consideration in the all-important tenure reviews which take place at the end of their seventh year...
Other competitors for the Crimson included freshman Rita Raju, who finished 10th in the triple jump with a distance of 37-ft., 10 1/2-in., and freshman Kathy Griffin. Griffin placed seventh in the shotput with a toss of 13.06 meters and seventh in the hammerthrow with a distance of 44.60 meters...
...negotiations had dragged on all night at Pusan's Dongeui University, but by dawn the 100 students on the seventh floor of the school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...