Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thompson extended the count to 3-2. the gold runner inched toward a tied score. the stretch the pitch...CRACK! Thompson connected on one of his famous line drives sending the runner home and the center fielder scurrying after the ball...
...first waves of Israeli jets concentrated on P.L.O. targets in Beirut and its outskirts. Though the bombs were aimed mostly at guerrilla bases and other P.L.O. installations, attacks were made on such nonmilitary areas as Family Beach, a popular stretch of sand and surf just south of the beleaguered capital. Israel's planes hammered hard at Beirut's Sports City, a former stadium that is now a storage depot for food and supplies for Al Fatah, a commando group of the P.L.O. Two floors of the structure collapsed under fire, burying guerrillas and their families in a broken...
...clumsy. Well, a banger like that stressing power from the port side ain't going to look like no ballerina. Doesn't everyone know what's going to happen in this fight? Cooney's going to knock Holmes out early, or he's not going to survive the stretch. One way or another, it's going to be a knockout. Period." So that's the whole fight, though not the whole fury...
...patient, of course, who suffers when the doctor is exhausted. "When you work 36 hours at a stretch, all you can do is work by protocol," Harrison explains. As a result, she says, doctors railroad patients into procedures and operations without pausing to consider their wishes. She provides numerous examples of this abuse, adding, "Patients have no choice in what is done to them." In one case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while...
TIME'S economists saw other encouraging signs that the slump may soon end. Runaway inflation has subsided, enabling the public to stretch its money further. The Administration's $1.6 trillion defense buildup is also helping to stimulate a recovery. Corporations that have been decreasing their inventories appear ready to start restocking shelves. That would mean that companies may soon begin stepping up production and rehiring workers...