Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Karen Ann, and a movie, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, or that on her 31st birthday this past April, cards of good wishes came from all over the world. Throughout all this, for more than ten years, she lay in a coma, curled into a fetal position, shrunken to little more than 60 lbs., unable to see or speak...
...pitched the game terribly, he says. Did the shrunken foot-wear have anything to do with it? "I'm sure it did," the senior pitcher says...
...certain calculations, pitching in Chicago's shrunken and windblown Wrigley Field can add a full point to earned-run averages. Yet Sutcliffe refused what all sides acknowledge was more cash to join the National League Champion Padres. Tugging on his roots in Independence, Mo., Kansas City showed Sutcliffe exactly where his grandfather's season seat would be. Again the pitcher resisted. "My heart told me to come back to Chicago," he says without embarrassment. "After the way things went last year, I guess I became a Cub fan." Behind his 16 victories against just one loss, the Cubs graced postseason...
Outside Weimar, near a large Soviet military base, the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald lies on the slopes of the Ettersberg, a desolate memorial to the more than 50,000 prisoners of war, Jews, Slavs, gypsies, political dissidents and other "undesirables" who died there. Two shrunken heads are on display in a glass case, along with a tiny lampshade made of human skin. Vintage loudspeakers, crudely wired to the SS barracks, are silent today, but more than 40 years ago they crackled with symphonic music...
...industry was more transformed in 1984 than telecommunications. In the boldest deregulation experiment of all, the Bell System carried out a courtmandated plan to break up into eight pieces: a shrunken AT&T, which kept its long-distance network, and seven regional companies to provide local service. The immediate results of the split were increased competition and confusion. Long-distance rates fell by 6% as AT&T battled with MCI Communications, GTE Sprint and other rivals. At the same time, though, the average cost of local service rose by 8%. Customers were befuddled by multipage bills, bewildered about whom...