Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rubber stamp body for the administration and performs no service for students. A prime example of the Council's ineptitude is its handling of the referendum on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. At Wednesday night's meeting, the Council voted to accept the unclear result of the December 9th referendum as a mandate supporting token freshman representation...
Johnson's history is much more than a collection of vignettes. He stresses the integral role that Christianity played not merely in European society but specifically in its economy. From the 9th to the 14th centuries, it was the monks of the great monasteries, particularly the Cistercian houses, who drained the swamps of Europe and cleared its for ests, thus creating thousands of square miles of arable land - and laying the foundations of Europe's prosperity. Christianity left some less fortunate legacies too. The ferocity of the Crusades, observes Johnson, "fossilized Islam into a fanatic posture" from which...
...power struggle that pitted his Mormon palace guard against Maheu, Hughes abruptly decamped from Las Vegas and moved to the Bahamas, leaving behind some of his private files. Soon after, while his servants in Nevada were in a state of confusion over his sudden departure, someone entered Hughes' 9th-floor penthouse in the Desert Inn and removed sheaves of his personal memos. Most of them ended up in the hands of Hank Greenspun, editor and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. He published some of them and showed others to a few journalists writing about Hughes. Most...
...groups who put it as their first choice, who under the old system would have been guaranteed admittance, are now solely at the mercy of random numbers. If their number is 425, they will see their favorite filled by people who distinctly hate it and have it listed as 9th, or even 10th...
...Bailey," said Carter, "I deny your motion. You can go to the 9th Circuit if you desire. Have at it." (Bailey is holding his appeal pending the outcome of the trial...