Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported losses totaling $50 million. Estimates of other financial casualties are growing. In Sacramento, officials predict that the drought will cause losses of $500 million in crops, $500 million in livestock and $1 billion in farm income-more than a fifth of California...
...team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence and heard the guerrillas addressing a crowd of villagers. The two sides exchanged fire before the guerrillas slipped away. The dead and wounded lay on the ground for nine hours before help arrived. When evacuation forces finally showed up, they found 17 women, twelve children and seven men dead, and 31 others wounded, all villagers. The toll among the combatants: one guerrilla killed...
...friends. There are now 30,000 doctors of veterinary medicine in the U.S., and the number is rising. In addition, there are more than 1,000 U.S. and Canadian animal hospitals. These range from small storefront one-doctor facilities to such gleaming temples of animal care as the nine-story Animal Medical Center on New York's East Side, an edifice that has operating rooms, pharmacies, research labs and a 24-hour emergency room...
...Room for Guests. In some countries, more youths than ever are seeking work. According to the latest figures for the nine Common Market nations in Western Europe, there are about 1.8 million jobless youths; they make up 37% of all unemployed in the region. In Britain, more than 500,000 young people are out of work, equal to 35% of all the unemployed. French youths account for 37.6% of the jobless. West Germany's youthful unemployment of 24.8% of those out of work is the lowest in Europe, but that contrasts with conditions three years ago when Germany...
...village, and there was no way to inform them of the new security measures. During the first hour of the curfew, 47 Arab residents of Kfar Kassem were shot as they returned to the village on bicycles and in lorries after work. The number included seven children and nine women. The killing continued until after a group of fourteen women, one boy and four men, was shot, when the unit commander finally ordered "more moderate procedures...