Word: nine
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Willy de Clercq, the chief E.C. negotiator, opposed phasing out all agricultural subsidies that give farmers in some countries an advantage over others in world markets. Nine million E.C. farmers, a politically powerful bloc whose livelihood depends on payments that enable E.C. stockpiling of products like beef, wine and milk, would be certain to oppose such a plan. By contrast, many U.S. farmers, who also rely on Government income supports, favor eliminating farm subsidies -- if foreign farmers follow suit. Reason: they believe U.S. agricultural productivity would give them an edge if competition were fair. Searching for a compromise, Yeutter...
...official report may not be the last word on what brought down the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Division. Four of the board's nine members blame a suspected explosion for the tragedy and indirectly raise a chilling question: Were the American peacekeepers victims of a terrorist plot...
...factories. Within minutes the city was split apart like an accordion. Forty-five miles to the north, the town of Spitak, population 30,000, was virtually "erased from the face of the earth," in the words of a Soviet television commentator. Said a local news-agency editor: "Ninety-nine percent of the population is gone...
...quake is interlaced with small faults in the earth's crust and has been shaken by dozens of serious tremors this century. "Where were the seismologists, the architects and the construction workers that drafted and built the houses that fell apart like matchboxes?" Komsomolskaya Pravda asked. Many new nine-story prefabricated panel buildings, Pravda noted, simply collapsed into heaps of rubble that became "common graves for many...
...week, the host asked the family leaders to give the most popular responses to a very simple question: "Name something a husband expects his wife to do." From the 100 men surveyed by the game show, only five answers made it up on the board: 64 men answered "cook;" nine said "clean the house;" eight said "do the laundry;" six said "make love" and four said "do the dishes...