Word: nineteen
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...wonder if the nineteen members who were not accounted for during the roll call on the bylaws amendment on March 11 or the 46 missing delegates whose lack of attendance temporarily shut down the Council last Sunday realize the actual and potential damage they are helping inflict upon the Council...
...hundred and nineteen of the 279 American companies that currently operate in South Africa have signed the principles. The principles require the firms to agree to work for the following...
Ever since, the states have been looking for ways to permit school prayer without appearing to demand it. Nineteen states have passed laws establishing a time for silent prayer or meditation in classrooms. Where challenged, however, these laws are usually struck down. The Supreme Court has remained above the fray, preferring to let the lower courts deal with the problems. But with Congress and the President agitating over a school-prayer amendment, the Justices may not be able to sit out much longer...
This great University has inscribed its goal above its gates: veritas. The only proven means to this end lies in the tradition of academic freedom. In a letter appearing in The Crimson; March 7, Nineteen Eighty-four, Mr. Mark Lagon of the Harvard Republican club argues that the tradition has broken down. He portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends...
Another routine used the overused device of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a theme that has already become a parody of itself. It did have its clever moments, though: in this brave new world, Studio 54 became the Ministry of Fun and a stentorian disc jockey commanded the dancers, "Fellow citizens, do the Pony...