Word: nine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clinks of pseudofacts...
...Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
Despite U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell's specific instructions to the contrary, that defense proved persuasive to the jury of nine women and three men, all black, all working class, all chosen for their ignorance of North's celebrated 1987 congressional testimony. Declared juror Earl Williams: "I think there were people higher up who gave him the authority to do a lot of things, and then when he got caught out there high and dry, no one came to help him." Added jury forewoman Denise Anderson: "North was used and abused...
...College Life Survey conducted last spring at Harvard found that 59 percent of students responding said they had one to four drinks when they drink. Twenty-one percent report having five to nine drinks at a time, while 3 percent have 10 or more. The survey found that 29 percent of those responding felt that Harvard students drink too much...
Carter, who was accompanied by other members of his team, told Bush that a scientific poll conducted by the Roman Catholic Church with a maximum margin of error of eight or nine percent said Noriega had won in only two polling places...