Word: sixteener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sixteen hundred successful high school students checked into 16 unfamiliar brick buildings last weekend and thereby offered themselves up to an outrageous number of emotional slings and arrows. Between now and June, they can count on undergoing many, if not all, of a sequence of trials peculiar to that single nine-month period, in roughly chronological order...
...Sixteen skippers begin 27,000-mile voyage "To young men contemplating a voyage I would...
...Sixteen of the manufacturing and distributing companies that rushed to get in on the bean bonanza have sued to get the FDA ban overturned. One of the first questions the courts will have to answer is whether the pills are in fact a drug or merely a food not subject to the tougher drug restrictions. Meanwhile, "if any of the plaintiffs continue to market," said an FDA spokesman, "they will be subject to regulatory action." Possible penalties include seizure of inventories, fines and imprisonment...
...past 34 years, the National Party has ruled South Africa by adhering to a single, all-important policy: perpetuation of power by the country's whites, who number only about 5 million, or 18% of the population. Now, however, deep fissures have appeared within the ruling party. Sixteen members of Parliament, including two Cabinet members, have broken with the government of Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha and formed a new, far-right political group, the Conservative Party. They accused Botha of straying from the apartheid precepts set by the ruling party more than a generation ago. The public debate...
Harvard's final entry in the meet will be today when Calvert races in the 200-yard backstroke. Her season best of 2:09 should put her in the top sixteen finishers, but a recent cold could harm her chances of placing well...