Word: nine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nine plays, 67 yards, touchdown. Sixteen plays, 58 yards, touchdown...
While only two of the Crimson's nine entrants remain alive in the singles championship tournament, its four top doubles squads advanced to tomorrow's quarterfinal round...
Even worse, drugs--and the inner-city gangs they support--kill innocent victims, such as nine-year-old Tiffany Moore, who was gunned down as she sat on a mailbox early one August evening last year. The girl's only crime was sitting in the middle of a gang war near Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury...
...their children register for the new school year, most parents, like Kenner's, are willing to scrimp and sacrifice. But they are increasingly outraged at the platinum price tags. For nine years, hikes in tuition and other fees have averaged roughly twice the rate of inflation, boosting bills at elite private schools like Sarah Lawrence and Princeton to the edge of the $20,000-a-year mark. And the spiral shows no sign of stopping. By 2005, according to the investment firm Paine Webber, the price of a college education is likely to climb to $62,894 annually...
...America they call it baseball. In Japan it's pronounced besuboru, but the form of the game in both countries is identical: umpires, nine players, walks, strikeouts, double plays and, of course, home runs (homu ran). Aside from a few quirky exceptions -- ties are permitted after twelve innings -- the Japanese play baseball by American rules. It's been that way since 1873, when the game was introduced in Japan and soon became the national obsession as well as the national sport. Yet as journalist Robert Whiting notes in his new book You Gotta Have Wa (Macmillan), the style and, most...