Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent that people who bet on the horses also bet on the dogs. It is not apparent that people who bet on the trotters bet on the dogs. It is apparent that Rhode Island, which depends largely on Massachusetts residents, should be allowed a seven month racing season while the remaining five are split between Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
...midst of the chaos, a terrible beauty being born. Around the world, mutant infants begin to appear. To their earthbound parents, these children that "see" and "hear" in dramatic new ways seem ethereal. In her final letter, Martha writes of such children on her own island, "These seven children are our--but we have no word for it. The nearest to it is that they are our guardians. They guard us." More remarkable still, these children of violence are born free of the curse of violence. And when one exceptional child does want to fight, "the children regarded...
STEPS to restrain an overgrowing economy and control inflation never begin to take effect for at least six months. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, rather charitably calls that tense period of waiting and watching "the awkward months." Last week, seven months after Washington's policymakers set the anti-inflationary course of tight money and tough budgeting, there were indications that the economic slowdown is starting...
...Bethlehem refuse to comment. The Port Authority reports only that the intricacies of multiple-contract construction-in some cases seven companies are providing steel for a single floor of the Trade Center-have caused no delays or problems. If so, other steel users may find that parceling out work among small firms is less expensive and more efficient than awarding it to the lumbering giants...
Since the first group's establishment last fall, seven others have been set-up in the Boston area and 11 elsewhere in the state...