Word: nine
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Northeastern beat the Harvard men's team during the indoor season, and the Crimson aimed to settle the score. Going into the final event, Harvard carried a narrow one-point lead. The Harvard men had nine first places going into the mile relay, and needed one more win to finish...
...task upon returning to the States has been to shuffle through the many ideas and impressions we encountered in a mere nine days. It is difficult to define the exact purpose of our exchange with the Soviet Union. A number of delegates felt uncomfortable with the idea that we were part of some grand plan to foster mutual understanding between peoples. Were we really there to work toward some sort of peace and to be emissaries of democracy? It was easier for us to view ourselves as friendly American college students than as dictionary sources of democracy...
...decade ago, China appeared to be a monolith, but times have changed. After nine years of Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" -- economic reform -- two Chinas have emerged. In the relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province...
...most notorious IRS foul-ups occurred last July, when the agency seized $70.76 in a bank account belonging to nine-year-old Carmin Fisher of Junction City, Ore. The Government was trying to collect part of a delinquent $21,182 bill owed by Carmin's grandfather Charles Fisher. Only after the case got nationwide attention did the IRS back down and return the money, saying it had mistakenly assumed that Carmin's grandmother, who was listed as guardian, owned the account...
...group is a formidable one, but right now it appears that Mutter and Mullova are in the ascendancy. Mutter's gifts include a consummate control of her instrument, gleaming intonation, ripe sound and an assured, nerveless stage demeanor. They seem to have come naturally. At age nine, Mutter coolly performed a solo Bach piece for Violinist Henryk Szeryng. The Polish-born master, dressed in shirt-sleeves, first listened dispassionately. When she had finished, he walked to his closet, donned a coat and tie and announced, "Now you can say hello to Uncle Henryk." Something similar happened when...