Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some other measures of prosperity: the billion-dollar club gained 24 new members; 227 companies reported 1976 sales of $1 billion or more. Of these, 36 topped $5 billion, nine more than the year before. Only twelve of the 500 lost money, v. 28 in 1975. Biggest loser: Rohr Industries. It dropped $52.1 million, mostly in its rail-transit-equipment business, which it plans...
...billion to $26.5 billion. Oil companies, however, did well too. Exxon led in sales for the third straight year, with $48.6 billion; Gulf Oil (sales: $16.5 billion) knocked IBM ($16.3 billion) out of seventh place, and Shell ($9.2 billion) displaced U.S. Steel ($8.6 billion) as No. 13. Indeed, nine of the top 17 slots were filled by oil companies...
...they all can't be like that. In the second game Crimson pitching walked nine batters and a gallant come-from-behind victory was foiled as Yale took...
...Cambridge Fire Department responded to the fire with nine vehicles. Smoke filled the building as the firemen extinguished the fire, which started inside a wall partition near the dining room...
...produced at the Loeb, the big dating service in the sky made a mistake with Adam and Eve. While Eve thinks she was sent to earth to meet her mate. Adam thinks he was promised a maid. With such a beginning, an irresistibly slimy serpent, and a chorus of nine animals misnamed by Adam, complications of course, develop. Set to Ravenal's jazz-rock music, the sometimes ironic, often humorous Sin does not exactly tell an original story, but it certainly looks at an old problem in a new way. Performances are tonight and tomorrow...