Word: tween
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was also preoccupied with his country's deteriorating economy. Squeezed be tween a record 1983 inflation rate of 200% and a sluggish pace in cost of living pay raises, Israelis are staging impromptu strikes. The country's 4,500 postal workers stayed away from their jobs for three days last week, while 800 Interior Ministry employees walked out on Thursday...
...fighting by no means ended the conflict be tween the Federal Government and the U.S. press over the mili tary's refusal to let reporters cover the invasion. Complained the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in a telegram to Defense Secretary Weinberger: "We object to the Defense Department's failure to honor the long tradition of on-the-scene coverage of American military operations...
...have mattered most about these years is not how close the world came to self-destruction, but that it did not happen, that the individual's claim on survival took precedence over all the wilder forces he let go. "Between the widening and the heightening," wrote Octavio Paz, "be tween the lips that say the Word and the Word itself, there is a pause, a sparkle that divides and claws: I. I'm not finished with myself yet." What is one to conclude then? That the self always prevails over the circumstances that oppose it? It hardly seems likely...
...leading universities have made organizational changes in order to meet the needs of the growing number of students interested in studying neuroscience; Harvard, however, is one of the few universities which has taken little action to encourage its students in this discipline. Each year Biology 25, "Neurobiology," a 'tween level (above introductory) course in the Biology Department, has more students than any other 'tween level course. Similarly, Psych & Soc, Rel, 1100, "Physiological Psychology," one of the largest courses offered in the Psychology Department, has tripled in size from when it was first offered only a few years ago. Collectively, Professors...
...distribution records to the Illinois department of law enforcement and to bear the cost of collecting unused and unsold Tylenol, an expense that could reach into the millions of dollars. Until now, Tylenol enjoyed a solid reputation and healthy sales. Analysts estimate that Johnson & Johnson sells be tween $300 million and $400 million worth of the analgesic a year. An $85 million advertising campaign has helped the company increase its share of the pain-reliever market from 4% to 37% since 1976. But the cyanide scare may do damage to the company's product. Says one stockbroker in Chicago...