Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Harvard won the 15-man match, it is the nine-man match that counts in the Eastern League standings. The defeat not only drops Harvard's record to 3-1, but it virtually eliminates any shot at the league title or a trip to the NCAA...
...women actually led the fleet by nine points after the first day, thanks to the slick work of captain Laura Brown and "A" Division skipper Pam Mack. But then the winds changed and the 'Cliffe sailors found themselves in the middle of the fleet, while MIT and URI floated home with the big silver...
...nine-member commission, headed by retired Chicago Banker Gaylord Freeman, estimates that dropping Saturday deliveries would save the Postal Service $412 million a year. The commission will also recommend further mechanization of mail handling to save $134 million annually, and suggest other improvements in management and productivity that would save $78 mil lion. Total savings: $624 million annually. Also proposed is the gradual elimination of subsidized postal rates for nonprofit organizations...
Schmoozing Distance. Malibu's colony is an exclusive enclave, but it is also a casual community of equals. Neil Diamond's beach house, Linda Ronstadt's $325,000 clapboard and the sprawling nine-bedroom house Guitarist Robbie Robertson took over from Carole King are all within schmoozing distance, as are the leased beach mansions of Mick Jagger and Ron Wood...
...memorabilia also set new marks. A series of 30 letters and cards to his parents during the years 1920 to 1928 brought $65,000. The Bible he carried as an ambulance driver in World War I fetched $4,500. One dealer even paid $2,750 for two pages of nine-year-old Ernest's scrawl describing how a clam in his school aquarium caught a goldfish by the tail...