Word: nine
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...first day I went to work as an economist for the Department of Agriculture, I was assigned to a nine-by-twelve cubicle, to be shared with my supervisor. Bob Barnet had a Ph.D. in economics, but was prouder of a pin he had just been awarded marking his 20 years of Government service. Barnet showed me the ropes, then leaned back and laid out his philosophy of how to succeed in the bureaucracy: please your boss, cover your ass and always, always be cautious. Patience was the greatest virtue. The way to get ahead was not to outshine everyone...
...death. At the railhead city of Dong Dang, a 30-ft. yellow gate marks Japan's invasion of Indochina in 1940, which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt's perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...
Viet Nam's economic problems were greatly aggravated by the expulsion of 200,000 ethnic Chinese in the past nine months. The Chinese were targeted because of their wide spread involvement in the black market; but they constituted Viet Nam's major entrepreneurial class. They managed the rice trade, the major ports, the distribution systems and several key industries-notably coal...
Eighth-ranked Social Sciences 15b, "Introduction to Psychology and Social Relations," and number nine Fine Arts 175a, "American Architecture from the Civil War to the Present," are the other newcomers to the list...
...Somerville City Council voted 6-4 on November 30 to rescind its nine-year-old ordinance accepting the rent control provisions of the state legislature's Rent and Eviction Control Act of 1970. Cambridge and Brookline are the only Massachusetts cities that still have full rent control laws. Boston has a partial rent control system...