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...Crimson (13-3-2, 10-2-2 ECAC) has to play three games in the next four nights and five in a nine-day period...
...response to an Undergraduate Council proposal, the College experimented last year with a nine-day exam period. This year the Faculty decided to return to the 11-day format, but it plans to try a nine-day exam period again next year...
...campaign headed into its final week, enlivened by Ross Perot's late re-entry into the race and a nine-day, four-debate marathon, the nation's pollsters were scrambling to take the final readings of an electorate that seemed hungry for change. The findings, while contradictory in some specifics, pointed toward more suspense than Clinton might like -- but less than Bush needs to score a historic upset on Nov. 3. Perot, by contrast, continued to bedevil both the major-party candidates and the pundits, who regularly discount...
Mount Holyoke self-schedules about 3100 examinations over four days. The Harvard scheduling office will make arrangements for over 21,000 test takers over the nine-day examination period. At Mount Holyoke's rate we would have to annex Memorial Hall for nearly a month, and that would be the length of the examination period. Assume we hired enough proctors to staff the Exam Center and assume again that we could get the job done in nine days. These are very large assumptions when you think that each student writing an examination would make two trips to Memorial Hall...
...years after the first launch of the space shuttle was supposed to initiate an era of routine space flight, NASA still doesn't have its act together. As of this writing, technicians are counting down for a nine-day life-sciences mission, originally scheduled for the mid-1980s. During the most recent delay, engineers were horrified to discover, more or less by accident, that sensors in Columbia's fuel line were cracked. If one had broken loose, it could have been sucked into the spacecraft's powerful pumps, causing the ship to explode in a replay of the Challenger disaster...