Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John's Redmen dominated their showdown with the Owls, stealing nine bases (to raise their total for the tourney to 39) while watching Temple commit seven errors...
Wolfson's luck with the law ran out in the 1960s. Tried two times on securities-related charges, he spent nine unpleasant months in a Florida federal prison. It was during his jail term that Wolfson attained perhaps his greatest notoriety: Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 after admitting that he had concealed the fact that he was receiving $20,000 a year for giving unspecified help to the Wolfson family foundation...
...home-office executives find the Pittston employees industrious, hard working and more eager for overtime than West German workers." Company employees also feel well treated by management. Says Joe Chmiel, a foreman: "It's the best company I ever worked for. I've been here nine years and never missed a day. The pay is more than reasonable, and you can get advancement...
...three-man board was William Jenkins, who complained bitterly about harassment by environmentalists and quit. But Jimmy Carter felt that the TVA had lost its sense of mission. It had, he complained, "become dormant and just another power company." One result was that to fill a vacant directorship nine months ago, Carter appointed Freeman, then a principal architect of the Administration's energy policy. The President decided to make him the chairman upon Wagner's retirement...
...find. The pianist was Ervin Nyiregyházi (pronounced near-edge-hah-zee), a Hungarian-born prodigy who made his debut at six, toured Europe as a Wunderkind and conquered Carnegie Hall in 1920, at 17. Then, following a string of public and private disasters, including the first of nine marriages, he vanished from public view...