Word: ten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turnaround jumper by Frazier increased the margin to three and his two free throws in the last ten seconds clinched...
...which usually holds a stock of 20,000 tons, has been empty at several points in the past few weeks. The poor are especially vulnerable because they cannot afford to shop at relatively well-stocked black-market outlets where bread is sold for more than a dollar a loaf, ten times the official price...
...deadly MX missile, which carries ten nuclear warheads, is stationed in hardened concrete silos designed to withstand a near-miss by an atom bomb. But at least one of the 50 MX's deployed by the Air Force over the past three years has trouble standing up. The Pentagon confirmed last week that the warheads from five MX's at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming were removed after one of the rockets slipped from its moorings and fell as much as a foot inside its underground silo last August. An investigation determined that the missile's fall...
...Over the past 22 months, disgruntled colonels have staged three uprisings, demanding pay raises and an end to the trials of officers charged with human-rights offenses. Alfonsin hiked military wages 20% last December and dropped cases against middle-level officers, but has refused to commute the sentences of ten top military and police commanders convicted of human- rights abuses...
...prospect of a new breeze was not lost on Managua. Last week, in interviews lasting four hours with TIME correspondent John Moody, Ortega seized the initiative to strike chords that sounded, and were doubtless carefully designed to sound, as conciliatory toward the U.S. as any during the Sandinistas' ten-year tenure...