Word: nine
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Only two weeks ago, as the House committee was completing its work, did the Administration come up with a complex new tax bill. "Even the sponsors don't understand it," charged Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman in the midst of last week's nine-hour debate, which touched on all aspects of the U.S. economy. His committee's bill, he said, is a "strong response to a nation worried about inflation and a message to the middle-class families of this nation that they aren't forgotten...
Chappaquiddick. It is supposed to be the big hurdle between Ted Kennedy and the presidency. But a new TIME poll shows that 79% of American voters think that the time has come to put aside the incident and judge the Senator on what he has done in the nine years since then. More than 75% state flatly that Chappaquiddick would not be enough to sway their vote against him if they felt that he were the best man. Despite Kennedy's denials, a majority of the voters think he will run for President. Moreover, Democrats currently favor him over...
...being obeyed by his Jewish descendants. High on a hilltop above the valleys of the West Bank, 35 families belonging to Israel's ultranationalist Gush Emunim are building a new settlement named Beth-El. They claim that 120 Jewish families are waiting to move into the settlement, nine miles north of Jerusalem, in territory that Israel has occupied since the 1967 war. There are plans for schools, a religious study center, an industrial area and even a holiday resort...
...first time in 15 years, New York's major dailies were shut down. The 1,500-member Newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union called the strike against the Times, News and Post (combined circulation: 3.4 million) and was backed up by all but one of its nine fellow craft unions (the typesetters, the only holdouts, have a no-strike contract) as well as by the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial employees. New Yorkers found their familiar newsstands either closed or peddling increased press runs of the Wall Street Journal and suburban papers; uninformed shoppers could not take advantage...
...president for the Fund for Animals, and she gets $47,500 as director of administration for the General Services Administration. They do not think that they live ostentatiously and often wonder where the money goes. They eat out three times a week, share a summer house and own a nine-year-old TV and a '69 Olds. They have about $10,000 in savings and investments. "We don't go in for speedboats and expensive clothes," says Janice, "but we really don't have to make very hard decisions on what...