Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Breed. Carter plans to cut the size of the present White House staff of 485 by about 30%. Jody Powell, for example, will have nine fewer aides than Ford's press office. Powell already has a reputation for being disorganized; yet with a diminished staff, he will be expected to oversee speechwriting as well as the news operation...
...People's Republic arrested nine citizens of Nationalist China at the same time as Downey and accused them of taking part in the spy ring...
...meet the fall deadline, manufacturers rushed through the required process of testing first in animals, then in small groups of humans, and finally in larger groups. There was no time to study long-term effects; the government recommended the vaccine to pregnant women, for instance, after less than nine months of testing. Parke-Davis manufactured and had to discard over 1.5 million defective doses of vaccine; Americans were lucky that the program led to nothing more serious than several hundred cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome...
...pipeline has had a disintegrative effect on many families with members in some way involved with the project. Fathers with construction jobs are usually away nine months of each year. Faulkner said in the pipeline terminal city of Valdez, known to Alaskans as "Valdisease," about a third of the housewives prostitute themselves regularly, partly to keep up with the exorbitant prices that face them in the grocery market. Finally, many family structures are jarred by the abundance of high school age children making more money than their fathers...
...score itself is old news, as is the fact that seven of the nine matches were 3-0 affairs (that's 108 for 113 this season, folks...