Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front seat and another bunch in the rear. Jammed under the dashboard and behind the back seat with all of their cables and TV monitors lie half a dozen puppeteers. In addition to Henson and Oz there are Jerry Nelson, who does Floyd and Dr. Strangepork, and can project nine different voices; Richard Hunt, a young, curly-headed, outgoing fellow who does Scooter and Sweetums; Dave Goelz (Zoot, Gonzo), a former industrial designer who got started when he saw Ernie on Sesame Street and made his own Ernie doll; and squeezed in somewhere, a Muppet newcomer named Steve Whitmire...
Brigitte Bardot adores hers. Pete Rose just bought ten of them, kept one for himself and gave nine as gifts. Object of their affections: the Jeep. World War II's workhorse has been transformed into a macho-chic machine that is leading the boom in the four-wheel-drive auto market...
...founder and president of World-Wide Sires Inc. of Hanford, Calif., Willard Clark has an occupation that would stump the old What's My Line? panel: he sells bull semen. Acting as a broker for nine artificial-insemination cooperatives, Clark ships the frozen semen of prize U.S. bulls (mainly Holsteins) to more than 40 countries, including the Soviet Union. Now Clark is looking to China, where he also hopes to hog the market for swine semen. His business is only seven years old, and he expects sales this year to reach $5 million...
...shaky birth, but a birth nevertheless. In Brussels last week, six of the nine members of the European Community agreed to tie together their currencies-and, to some extent, their economies-in one big monetary union...
...nine years that Killeen has been the cajoling chief of IDA, more than 175 U.S. companies have started manufacturing in Ireland. Industrial investment, primarily from the FORTUNE 500 but also from Australia, Japan and Ireland's Common Market partners, is doubling every four years. The foreign companies' exports are rising even more rapidly...