Word: six-and-a-half
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More recently, in 2000, councillors came to their decision in a six-and-a-half hour meeting on the night of Valentine’s Day, after a six-week impasse...
...years piled up fast. Sixty-five years in prison each for 14 former student activists. Twenty-and-a-half years for a blogger. Twelve-and-a-half years for a labor leader. Six-and-a-half years for five Buddhist monks. Two years for a poet. In the space of just three days this week, more than 30 Burmese were sentenced to prison or hard labor by the country's ruling junta, a chilling legal onslaught that sent a clear message to other potential dissidents: speak out, and get used to life in a prison cell...
...politically difficult” problems, including financial deficits, a “zero” personal savings rate, and the current account deficit, Rubin bemoaned the partisan divide that he said has diminished the effectiveness of the U.S. political system. Rubin left the public sector after six-and-a-half years, succeeded as Treasury secretary by his protege and former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers...
...politically difficult” problems, including financial deficits, a “zero” personal savings rate, and the current account deficit, Rubin bemoaned the partisan divide that he said has diminished the effectiveness of the U.S. political system. Rubin left the public sector after six-and-a-half years, succeeded as Treasury secretary by his protege and former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers...
...cover is a whopping six-and-a-half minutes long, and includes an unintelligible interlude of her poetry: “Goat-skin drums advancing with hands outstretched, and we keep filling them with nitrous, asbestos, baby-bombs blasting blue,” she blabbers. Gee, Patti, we’re really getting into that poetry of yours. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is also the most recent song she covers here, and it’s indicative of her antiquated sensibilities—the kind of song that Reader’s Digest subscribers might...