Word: six
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal would limit development by requiring that all new buildings be stepped back from residential zones at a 45-degree angle. Such changes normally require six council votes, or seven if 20 percent of the property owners in the affected area file objections...
...when Yanow told the council that she had received commitments of support from six councillors, Independent Councillor Thomas W. Danehy immediately replied that he had not spoken with her. He then proceeded to question his Independent colleagues...
...content, for the moment, with promoting 24 junior members of the present body from candidate to voting members. Though the Central Committee was thus downsized by 50 members, to 251, reinforcements are on the way. Since the last congress, in 1986, Gorbachev has changed party leaders in six out of 15 republics and 88 out of 150 regional and territorial party chiefs...
...each cylinder, and an innovative air-intake system that can sip oxygen from a single narrow throttle valve or suck it full blast from a wide-mouth intake, depending on how sharply the driver presses the pedal to the metal. Other high-tech bells and whistles include a slick six-speed computer-assisted manual transmission and a suspension system that automatically adjusts shock absorbers to the speed...
Last week six youths were indicted for rape, and two others were indicted for a separate attack on a male jogger. According to investigators, these were not crimes of drugs or race or robbery. Newspapers claimed that the suspects came from stable, working families who provided baseball coaching and music lessons. The youths, some barely into their teens, may not have been altar boys, but they hardly seemed like candidates for a rampage. One was known for helping elderly neighbors at his middle-income Harlem apartment complex. Another was a born-again Christian who had persuaded his mother to join...