Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Persecuted Criminal. A Department of Housing and Urban Development field office got 25 names through the Civil Service roster to fill several temporary clerk-typist positions for a year. The office superintendent, a white man, selected seven people (four women and three men) from nine applicants, all of whom were black. One of the rejected applicants, Mr. P., on probation for assault, complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office that he had been the victim of race and sex discrimination. The superintendent admitted that he had rejected F. because of his criminal record. F. was given one year...
...widow became a recluse, living in a stone mansion on seven wooded acres in suburban Glenview. She consulted a fortuneteller by phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close to only one person: Jack Matlick, 48, the Brachs' chauffeur and houseman for 18 years...
Nationalization This is the issue that split the left last fall. In its original plan, the Common Program called for the nationalization of nine giant French companies as well as all banks. When Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais insisted that the takeover of the nine companies also include their 1,450 subsidiaries, the Socialists refused, and the leftist coalition fell apart. Marchais also demanded a system of workers' councils in public and private industry that would virtually guarantee control by Communist-dominated unions. The Socialists, somewhat more moderate in their approach, simply argue that limited nationalization will stimulate capital...
...family-planning program was often harshly applied. But the sterilizations (8 million in her last year of power) were a human effort to deal with crushing statistics: India's population (now over 620 million) will reach 1 billion by the year 2000. During Desai's first nine months in office, on the other hand, there were only 636,000 sterilizations, the lowest rate in a decade. The threat of dictatorship has receded, but the conflict between traditional democracy and the things India must do to save itself remains unresolved...
Princeton never trailed after Kleinert hit a corner jumper for the 7-6 lead. The 6-ft., 11-in. Young then came off the bench and scored nine points in an eight-minute stretch to give the Tigers a 32-23 edge at the half...