Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That did not sound promising, considering that nine weeks have passed since the Gamp David accords. But if nothing else, Sadat's good news-bad news comment proved anew, in case any such demonstration was needed, that Middle East peace negotiations are still on a roller coaster of moods ranging from the rhapsodic to the bleak. A few days after Cairo officials had been saying privately that the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was almost wrapped up, they were hinting that the talks were on the verge of collapse...
Wolfe and his nine-member staff work on a meager $148,000-a-year budget in a cramped and rundown Washington office. On the door is a sign in Latin: POPULUS IAMDUDUM DEFUTATUS EST (The people have been getting screwed long enough). Putting in ten-hour days, Wolfe is currently involved in a study of surgeons' fees in Washington, D.C., a stepped-up antismoking campaign, and warnings on estrogen...
...economic: a top group can be engaged for around $4,500, compared with up to $15,000 a night for a diva or a virtuoso pianist. Another attraction is that the repertoire is seemingly limitless in number (hundreds of string quartets alone) and variety (duos for two, nonets for nine). The Juilliard String Quartet plays 600 works from three centuries. Other groups, like the Theater Chamber Players and the 20th Century Consort, both in Washington, D.C., focus heavily on contemporary works. Says Sergiu Luca, founder of the popular Chamber Music Northwest series in Portland, Ore.: "We are small enough...
...track down the gang of crazies who killed his wife and daughters with a bomb in a London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members of the so-called Liberty group, an anti-Communist outfit dedicated to preserving white rule in Africa...
...reported $2.75 million over a ten-year period. But age inevitably slowed his stride, and despondent over his recent divorce, he quit after 22 years in hockey. In 1,447 games, he had scored 1,012 goals (second only to Gordie Howe), drilled home 50 or more goals in nine seasons, and twice set single-season scoring records...