Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven hotels and casinos-including the Sands, the Desert Inn and the Castaways-are the second largest employer (more than 6,000 people) after the Federal Government. His aviation and defense companies even now affect the national interest; for example, Hughes Aircraft, which is the U.S.'s ninth biggest defense contractor, produces the Phoenix air-to-air missile, the Hellfire air-to-surface missile and radar...
...Marilyn the Wild, Jerome Char-yn's ninth novel, father questing becomes a bizarre and moving search-and-destroy mission. Isaac Sidel, the flintiest, least corrupt, most overbearing cop in New York, is a self-appointed patriarch of the Lower East Side. For 20 years he has kept his microcosm free of outside influence. But too many people now find it hard to breathe when he is around...
Enter Ken Petkunas, who ended the inning one single, one walk and one out later; but with a 4-0 deficit, Castiglione facing them, and only the ninth inning remaining, victory was, for all passed balls and wild pitches, beyong the outstretched gloves of the Crimson (now 13-7) batsmen...
Palmer pitched eight innings of shutout ball and Dyar Miller finished up in the ninth, while Boston starter and lower Ferguson Jenkins was touched for the only run of the game in the fourth when Baltimore's Lee May cruised home from first base on a Fred Lynn throwing error...
Fifteenth-ranked Harvard opens its Ivy League schedule on Friday, meeting Penn on the astroturf at Franklin Field. The Quakers are currently ranked ninth in the country. "We missed a lot of opportunities today," coach Scalise said after the Bowdoin game. "To beat Penn we're going to have to score in those situations...