Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nearby Hinniyah suffered a similar fate. Burj al Shamali, the Palestinian refugee camp, fared somewhat better, although its hospital was half destroyed by bombs that killed nine children inside. Taking casualties at Tyre General Hospital, a few miles away on the coast, Dr. Yussek Iraki angrily said: 'All the people I have treated were 100% civilians. None was a Palestinian fighter...
...generation XM1 tank (called "the best in the world" by U.S. Army Secretary Clifford Alexander Jr.) until 1979 at the earliest. Also making a rare public appearance last week were new Soviet 122-mm. and 152-mm. self-propelled howitzers; the larger gun can fire nuclear shells nine miles...
...centerpiece of the apartheid system is the elaborate plan to establish nine "independent" black homelands within South Africa. Eventually, all South African blacks will be given citizenship in one of these homelands, even though about half of the black population live permanently in "white" South Africa. Of these, hundreds of thousands were born in the urban townships and have rarely if ever visited, or wanted to visit, their theoretical homelands. The urban black population in South Africa is estimated at 9 million...
Kowal's observations indicate the object is between 160 and 640 kilometers (100 and 400 miles) in diameter-larger than most of the asteroids that orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but far tinier than the smallest of the nine planets, Mercury. It orbits the sun in the same plane as the planets and is currently about 1.5 billion miles from earth. Depending upon whether its orbital path is nearly circular or highly elliptical, the object could take anywhere from 60 to several hundred years to complete a single circuit...
...market is there. U.S. wine consumption has increased by almost 60% in this decade. This year or next, for the first time, Americans will down more wine than hard liquor.* Wine already outsells spirits in nine states: Arizona California, Idaho, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington...