Word: sixteens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...administrators from the School of Education, Harvard's Upward Bound is one of five in the Boston area. It was begun sixteen years ago and is entirely dependent on grants from the federal government--funding that is currently endangered by threatened budget cuts...
...quagmire, they have become tempting targets for commercial and financial sanctions, even though such measures have been ineffective in the past. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, President Carter declared a partial embargo on grain exports and shipments of many types of technology to Moscow. Sixteen months later, Reagan lifted the grain embargo, saying that it was hurting American farmers more than the Soviet Union. In response to last December's martial-law crackdown in Poland, Reagan strengthened the ban against technology exports to the Soviets but let the grain trade continue...
...Sixteen teams will get invitations to college field hockey's premier post-season competition. There will be one team from each of 10 regions. Six at-large selections will also receive tournament bids...
...During the first week in October, a New York Times poll showed Moffett ahead by five percentage points. The same week, a University of Connecticut-Hartford Courant canvass had Weicker up by 16 points. Since then, another Times poll has put Weicker in the lead by two points or sixteen points, depending on the order the polling questions were put to voters...
...Sixteen hundred miles away from the maelstrom, investigators at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. In the past decade, there have been outbreaks of premature thelarche in the Middle East and Italy. In the Middle East, the condition was traced to milk from a cow that had been getting DES injections; in Italy it was linked to contaminated beef. But the cause is not always dietary, and symptoms often disappear within a year, whether or not diet is altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly...