Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually only agree to disagree. He is merely first among 3 million or so Palestinian equals, scattered across a dozen countries and linked together by a host of overlapping groups. Arafat persuades by force of personality; rarely does he command. Some say he has survived as leader after nine years mostly because he must spend his time moderating instead of moving too far front...
...attitude of Schleyer's kidnapers hardened in early October, shortly after Tokyo capitulated to terrorists who had skyjacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Bangladesh and demanded freedom for nine imprisoned "comrades" and $6 million in ransom. After the skyjacking last week, Schmidt began meeting around the clock with the Cabinet and two crisis groups that he had formed to handle the Schleyer kidnaping. As of early this week, his government was still refusing to buckle to the terrorists' demands. Although he has taken a hard line on terrorists, the Christian Democratic opposition has been accusing Schmidt...
...income and again as individual income of shareholders. Though the method to be used has not yet been finally decided, some relief from double taxation is all but certain to be included in the package. Ultimately, of course, the decision will be up to the President, who is studying nine position papers containing about 50 options, each with boxes labeled "Agree," "Disagree" or "Want to discuss further...
...Chafee staff member said nine out of the ten Senate conferees support the exemption...
...recent Thursday morning, for instance, Thomson teacher Greg Watson asked his group of 15 students to try to complete "the suspended log obstacle test." Within 20 minutes the group would have to get every member up and over a log suspended nine feet above the ground between two trees--with the proviso that once a student was over the obstacle, he could not help the rest of his classmates. Working as a team the group succeeded with minutes to spare...