Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the case came before a judge nine months later, Thomas was ready to mount a powerful and eloquent defense, having completed most of his first year at the University of Virginia law school. "Fortunately," he says, "the judge dismissed my case. But not without proclaiming that 'this doesn't mean the court thinks there is anything noble about the press.' " Ignoring that wisdom, Thomas came to TIME shortly after receiving his J.D. in 1977, joining Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington...
Later in the week, while Carter stayed home in Washington to work, Rosalynn flew to Quito for the inauguration of Jaime Roldds Aguilera as Ecuador's first democratically elected President after nine years of dictatorships. This week Carter resumes his travels with a flight to St. Paul, where he will board Delta Queen, an old stern-wheeler that will take him and 188 other tourists on a week-long trip down the Mississippi River. At each stop the President plans to repeat his energy lesson. After the boat docks at St. Louis, he will head east...
...additional students should not cause a housing crunch, Susan W. Lewis, assistant dean of freshmen, said yesterday. Renovations to Hurlbut Hall have added room for 16 additional students, she said. Forty-nine freshmen will live off-campus, she added...
...weekly problem sets are really no problem--they are basically a rehash of Fisher's lectures. Grading is relatively easy; students receive four out of a possible six points on each problem set for just following instructions. And although head section man Bruce Patton urges students to hand in nine of the assignments, few complete more than the required number...
...saving balance to the prettiness of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, is the oldest of the lot at nearly 18, but she looks the youngest; in the Malick film, shot three years ago, she seems no older than twelve. Brooke Shields, 14, appeared in Alice, Sweet Alice at nine. Tatum O'Neal, who is 15 now, broke into the big time at nine, playing her dead-end father Ryan's dead-end kid in Paper Moon. Some of the roles these child-women have taken are precociously and shockingly erotic, and some are proper and conventional. But whatever they...