Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eighteen newly elected mayors from around the country will meet here on Thursday, November 17 to participate in the five-day Seminar on Transition and Leadership, sponsored by the Institute of Politics and the United States Conference of Mayors...
When pushed, the bar is capable of substantial reform. Eighteen lawyers were disbarred or disciplined in the Watergate scandal, and D.C. Bar Disciplinary Counsel Fred Grabowsky now says: "Watergate may have been the best thing that ever happened to us." Prodded by Supreme Court decisions, the bar has belatedly begun backing group prepaid legal-service plans, Blue Shield-style arrangements that bring legal aid to middle-income citizens for a flat fee (the United Auto Workers, for instance, has installed such a system for its Chrysler workers). With some exceptions, bar groups have also pushed for expansion of Government legal...
...turn of the century the waters by the Mull of Kintyre had percolated Turnberry into the rough image of a championship eighteen according to this ponderous recipe. Nature also provided Turnberry with its share of the enchanting beauty of the Scottish hinterlands. The winds that have beleaguered generations of golfers howl in from the mountains of Arran silhouetted across the sea while the fog enshrouded Ailsa Craig looms in the foreground...
...group of oil magnates seeking recreation during the Depression and hoping to create employment commissioned Perry Maxwell to design Southern Hills. It was soon recognized as the premier test of golf in the Southwest and perhaps the most rigorous eighteen as far as driving goes in the nation...
...Colgate course is the brainchild of Robert Trent Jones, the dean of American golf architects. Jones attended Colgate and drew up plans for a course as an undergraduate. The plans lay in a drawer for 30 years before an eighteen was actually constructed about a decade...