Word: nine-year-old
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...Blume hardly needs a blueprint. Says she: "I don't have a teen-age audience in mind when I write. I try to get inside the mind and skin of a kid, and let the book find its own audience." One nine-year-old requested, "Please send me the facts of life in number order." Blume replied, "Ask your parents." She hates to see her explicit novel of first love, Forever, on the shelves next to books for younger children. The bittersweet romance, however, is the volume most requested by teens in the New York Public Library...
...poison only after months of pleading by his despondent wife. Under Texas law, aiding a suicide is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum punishment of a $200 fine. Why did the poison have to be so undetectable? His lawyers contended that he was hoping to spare his nine-year-old son the stigma of a family suicide by making the death seem an inexplicable consequence of the stroke. Susan Chanslor took the stand to support her husband's story. "I discussed with Bill the possibility of ending my own life," she told the jury. "He was a typical husband...
...call attention to one American policy-his Caribbean Basin Initiative of increased American aid, trade and investment-that has been successful in winning friends. On his first stop in Jamaica, Reagan was greeted by crowds of friendly schoolchildren waving American flags, and he mingled happily with eight-and nine-year-old calypso dancers at an airport welcome. Edward Seaga, the pro-business Prime Minister whose election in October 1980 ousted a leftist government, proudly ticked off signs of Jamaica's economic revival: positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus since 1974; lower inflation...
...result, she says she will be unable to raise her nine-year-old son, and doctors say she may die within a year...
Anthes is in a position to know. He is president of Denver's campusless College for Financial Planning, a nine-year-old institution whose alumni have grown from 41 in 1973 to 3,020 now, with a current enrollment of 5,200. Mainly through correspondence courses backed by rigorous testing at 140 centers throughout the U.S., the college turns out C.F.P.s trained in such areas as risk management, taxes and investments, and estate planning...