Word: ten-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regime into power. What shook the Communists was not just the unexpected victory by the center-right coalition led by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing but also the weakness of their own performance. The party's share of the total vote (20.6%) slumped to a ten-year low, and that became even worse when gauged against the small increase gained by the Socialists, who emerged with 22.6% of the vote, thus confirming their position as the dominant party on the left...
Economics is this year's most popular concentration choice among freshmen, following a ten-year upward trend in enrollment in that field, according to statistics released last week by the Office of the Registrar...
...longer. If built, the neutron bomb would replace many of NATO's 7,000 tactical nuclear warheads, which generally range in size from 10 to 50 kilotons, and are stored mostly in West Germany, the front line of the West's defense. Total estimated cost of the ten-year replacement program: from $2 billion to $4 billion...
Last month the second trial, too, ended in conviction, but again the sentence was mild: one year in prison for the civil rights violation plus a ten-year suspended sentence for conspiracy. Said U.S. District Judge Ross N. Sterling, a former law partner of ex-Governor John Connally: "A long period of confinement would have little impact on the Houston police department, where I believe the heart of the trouble lies...
That was the word this week, as the Medical School released statistics showing that the number of students applying to the school dropped last year--ending a ten-year trend that witnessed the tripling of the number of applicants...