Word: nine
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...abruptly in 1979 (at just 42), not really because of his ulcer, not precisely because his fear of flying was nearing a frenzy, Madden reluctantly accepted CBS's second or third offer of a commentator's tryout and hesitantly began jumping through paper hoops in Miller Lite beer commercials. Nine years later, his network stipend is crowding $1 million a year, and the rewards from his myriad motor-oil and antihistamine accounts may be two or three times that. He has written two best-selling memoirs (Hey, Wait a Minute, I Wrote a Book! and One Knee Equals Two Feet...
...extent of Simmons' rampage became clear when authorities entered his home. There, amid unopened Christmas gifts, they found the bodies of one of Simmons' sons, a daughter, their spouses, and a grandchild. A shallow grave behind the house and the trunks of two junked cars contained the bodies of nine other family members: Mrs. Simmons, five more of her children and three grandchildren...
...space explorers measure distance in light-years, but their creator employs more conventional units for time. The sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 took place only nine years later, in 2010. The latest adventure of the still ( youthful Heywood Floyd and his cybernetic companion, HAL the computer, occurs 51 years further on. As astronomers know, 2061 is the year Halley's comet is next scheduled to enter the inner solar system, providing a sequel of its own. Despite a soft landing on that astral body, the reappearance of the celebrated black monoliths of superintelligence, and references to voicegrams, audiomail...
Because the two sides still do not concur on the order in which they should discuss a wide range of issues. including salaries, benefits and job classification. Wednesday's negotiation meeting lasted only nine minutes, said clerical workers union President Lucille A. Dickess...
...latest violence followed publication of a new electoral law by the government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. In violation of the country's nine- month-old constitution, the law requires that ballots be examined by government-appointed agents, and bars civilian observers from the polls. Presidential elections are scheduled for Jan. 17, but the four leading candidates are convinced that Namphy will install his own man in office, and have refused...