Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bloody (ten dead) battle with armed, union-busting Pinkerton agents hired by the Carnegie Steel Co. More recently, after U.S. Steel (now the USX Corp.) closed a plant that had provided about 15,000 jobs, the town commanded attention as a victim of the economic tides that have sunk smokestack industries. Last week Homestead blurted into national attention yet again -- this time because of a police campaign to solve a series of rapes by seeking the fingerprints of almost every black man in town...
...least 16 people were killed in and around the southern port of Pusan, the country's second largest city. Strong winds triggered high waves that crashed into the port, and more than 50 fishing boats were sunk or damaged...
Officials said a number of fishing boats caught at sea by the typhoon were sunk and an unknown number of fisherman drowned...
...does in the TV world, from the A.C. Nielsen Co. At the height of its popularity in 1983 and '84 (when Michael Jackson's Thriller was a hit attraction), MTV's ratings hovered between 1% and 1.2% of its potential audience. By the fall of 1985, the ratings had sunk to .6%, and they have not improved much since. MTV executives dispute the numbers, claiming that Nielsen's sample underrepresents males between the ages of twelve and 24, an important segment of its audience...
...this point, [students] are thinking 'I know what you are supposed to do, but I can't do it'," says Cara L. Vaughn, public information manager for student health services at the University of California at Berkeley. But some of the information seems to have sunk in, as condom sales at the UHS pharmacy rose this year, with much of the increase coming in bulk packages of three dozen condoms...