Word: nine
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...Dengler each digit has an ingenious symbolic significance. One means, "I am part of the whole of life, which is one." Fair enough. But the others are more esoteric. Nine, for example, "stands for relationship to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially everpresent nature of life...
...Marion calls "a paradise"-Restoration Point on Puget Sound's Bainbridge Island. Founded in 1890 as a summer retreat for a wealthy group of Ivy League sailing buffs from the East, the point is now the duchy of their descendants, whose 16 stately homes, gardens, tennis courts and nine-hole golf course nestle among towering cedars and firs. Seattlites have nicknamed this 120-acre enclave the "Country Club...
...English-speaking former director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. Worrall advocates a substantial revision of the government's apartheid blueprint, including some kind of constitutional role for the country's 9 million urban blacks and an enlargement of the nine tribal homelands slated for nominal independence...
Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Deutsche Grammophon; 8 LPs). His third recording of the Beethoven symphonies reaffirms the impression that Karajan, 69, is a man surcharged with new energy, and ever more confident of his powers. As one would expect from this conductor, there is no arbitrary tampering with tempos, or other excesses marching under the banner of personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets...
...community. It was an indication that not even the most venerable and standoffish Wall Street houses can withstand the agonies of attrition that are engulfing the brokerage and investment banking business. Some other indications: 384 member firms of the New York Stock Exchange reported total profits for the first nine months of 1977 down 61 % from a year earlier, mostly because of competitive price cutting on commissions; more than 100 firms suffered losses. In the past five years, 75 firms have disappeared from the Big Board's roster through failure, acquisition or merger...