Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Congress proposed the Seventh Amendment, guaranteeing the right to a jury trial "in Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars." But back in 1789 they could never have imagined anything like Memorex...
...euphoria, Richie acquires a one-seventh part of an expensive call girl and recovers some of the old Giants swagger. Inevitably his deal with the city dies, and Richie faces a similar fate at the hands of King Kong. Flynn is saved temporarily because of a minor Mafia dispute. A more permanent salvation is offered by the FBI and an ambitious new special prosecutor, Hamilton Wainwright IV, who has vowed to rip out the "cancer" of organized crime. They want Richie to sing...
South Africa was early to capitalize on its coal resources, estimated to be 25 billion tons, or about one-seventh of the U.S.'s total. In 1950, the South African Coal, Oil & Gas Corp., known as SASOL, was formed and by 1955 Sasol gasoline was being sold. The state-owned company, which charges just over $2 per gal. of gas, began showing a profit in 1973 and last year had pretax profits of $140 million on sales that totaled close to $ 1 billion. Although environmentalists were alarmed at the potential damage -indeed, smoke often hangs like a gray curtain...
Today Radcliffe affects undergraduates most directly in the many programs and services it sponsors, among them the Radcliffe Forum, which hosts lectures and seminars all year; the Radcliffe/Harvard Women's Center, which publishes Seventh Sister; and the Radcliffe Alumnae Career Services, which offers job-hunting advice and resources for alumnae for life...
...Seventh Sister: feminist paper written entirely by women. This paper has a generally angry tone, sometimes justified but often overblown...