Word: seven
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...case garnered national publicity after Razo was arrested two years ago and charged with seven counts of armed robbery in Orange County and three counts of robbery in Los Angeles...
Such statements cannot disguise the hemorrhage of tourist and investment dollars. Hotels averaged only 30% occupancy last week, and seven temporarily closed their doors. More important for China's economic outlook, international organizations were reassessing their involvement. The World Bank is reconsidering more than $700 million in new loans that were scheduled for delivery to China by the end of the year...
...takes seven days to complete its journey, which leaves plenty of time for passengers to disembark along the way and explore more closely the river's treasures. The monks of St. Wandrille may offer a tour of their abbey, an anthology of architecture that includes not only medieval ruins but also a 15th century barn moved onto the abbey grounds a few years ago from a nearby village. In another crook of the river is the Abbaye de Jumieges; William the Conqueror made a point of appearing for its consecration...
Everywhere he went, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were besieged by cheering and excited crowds chanting, "Gorbi! Gorbi! Gorbi!" Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who faces a tough campaign for re-election in 1990, made seven appearances with his visitor, hoping, perhaps, to absorb some of the generous warmth. Gorbachev's popularity rating among West German voters is considerably higher than Kohl's; a poll taken for the weekly Der Spiegel in early June gave Gorbachev a score of +2.2 on a scale of +5 to -5, compared with -0.6 for Kohl...
Chaim Waldman is one of the self-proclaimed vigilantes. A zealous American Jew who moved to the West Bank from Columbus, Ohio, seven years ago, Waldman considers himself a part-time commando waging a messianic struggle against his Palestinian neighbors. "When I go out in my car, I'm hunting for Arabs," says the 37-year-old engineer. "I put a bullet in the chamber of my M-16 and keep it pointed out the window with the safety off." He deliberately shifts his Peugeot station wagon into low gear as he enters Palestinian villages to steady...