Search Details

Word: ten-year (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ten-year period in the 1960's when 58,000 men and women died in the Vietnam War, 330,000 women in this country died of breast cancer...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Struggling for Earlier Detection, Better Treatment | 4/27/1993 | See Source »

Healy is credited with molding strong fiscal policy and keeping the city solvent during the recession. Under Healy's ten-year tenure as city manager, he has made Cambridge the city with the highest bond rating in the Commonwealth...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Manager Healy Faces Evaluation, Contract Renewal | 11/18/1992 | See Source »

...Terminator 2, parents do not fail to notice, Schwarzenegger, in order to steal someone's motorcycle and clothes, drives a long-bladed knife through a man's shoulder, pinning him to a pool table, and fries another man's hands and face on the griddle of a restaurant. Ten-year- olds watch Schwarzenegger's disgusting violence and absorb it as if it were normal, acceptable and heroic behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...loved Magic all my life, and this won't change that," a ten-year old kid told a television reporter. That is the essence of this deeply tragic event. Magic's instincts of selflessness and generosity prevailed over all other human responses to this devastating revelation, and as such, proved Magic to be as great a hero, as worthy an idol as we could ever hope to find in a public figure...

Author: By Nader A. Mousavizadeh, | Title: Not the End of Magic | 11/9/1991 | See Source »

...Last year, the highly controversial Proposition 1-2-3 referendum, which would have allowed occupants of rent controlled apartments to purchase the apartments after a year of residency, sparked an unusually high turnout of approximately 29,000 voters. Ten-year local activist Jack E. Martinelli, who was resident of the progressive coalition Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) from 1986 to 1987, predicts an average to below-average turnout of 24,000 or so this year...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Decision '91: The city's Progressive Council Puts Its Record on the Line | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next