Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean everybody was a big deal in high school. Even you. Editor of your yearbook, right? Maybe a three-sport, nine-letterman. Maybe both, with a little class valedictorian thrown in for good measure...
...subcommittee includes nine Med School faculty members and four University and Med School officials...
...Nicaraguan government of systematically executing civilians, raping women, torturing prisoners, bombing villages. Eighty-six civilians are reported dead, 29 of them children. The story is excessively detailed and poorly structured, as if there is no order to be made out of routine terror or "normal" repression. Graphically, page nine of last Wednesday's New York Times shocks. How can so much energy and space be invested in the appearance of prosperity, the conceit of control? Why do we look at respectable nonchalance, and refuse to see ladylike strangulation, life and death in small print...
...with the law." Then another reported on the international scene: "The famous designer Pierre Cardin has announced he will begin a new line of men's fashions." It would have been useless to cry. I could not have been purged. The ending confronts us too constantly--even on page nine of The New York Times...
...believe that we have now got such a horrible conglomeration of confusion in the energy field that nobody knows what is going to happen next." So complained President Carter at his news conference last week, and no one would disagree. At present, nine of the eleven Cabinet departments deal with energy policy in one way or another. So do five independent energy agencies. Programs of various sorts in the field have spread through the Washington bureaucracy like derricks in a West Texas oilfield: the Federal Energy Administration runs a total of 23 separate data-collection projects, the Federal Power Commission...