Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such circumstances, a way can sometimes be found. The officials got the downtown Plaza Motor Hotel to rent nine of its ninth-floor rooms for the use of 18 prisoners-most of whom were guilty only of misdemeanors. Cost: $22.50 per prisoner per day. The county paid $17 a day per room, plus $5.50 for meals for each of the inmates. While only one of the 254-room hotel's regular customers complained about the situation, an insurance company threatened to cancel the hotel's policy. What to do? The authorities simply released 25 prisoners on personal bonds...
...folketrygden (people's security) law grants everyone disability, old-age and survivors' benefits, rehabilitation assistance and unemployment payments. Other measures provide free hospitalization, surgery and medicines. Youngsters through the ninth grade receive dental care at their schools at no cost. Every worker is guaranteed at least four weeks of paid vacation...
Laurie Downey got on the scoreboard with an eighth in the 50-yd. backstroke (29.28) and a ninth in the 100-yd. individual medley (1:02.79), adding to her two seconds in the meet...
Hackett, who shattered the meet record in the 500-yd. freestyle on Thursday night, repeated the feat in last night's 200-yd. freestyle, winning in 1:38.90. Teammate Julian Mack, another freshman, finished ninth in that event with a 1:42.73 clocking...
Teammates Steve Schramm, Jamie Greacen and Mike Toal took fifth, seventh and ninth, respectively...