Word: eleven
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...South African government disclosed that it would not seek a renewal of the $40 million credit reserve provided by eleven foremost American banks for exactly 20 years. This action reveals the first crack in South Africa's arrogant armor of self-righteousness, matched by the banks' haughty self-justification. While neither the government nor the banks are likely to admit the fact publicly, no one with intimate knowledge of this matter doubts that a decisive factor was persistent pressure by Friends of Africans, especially church spokesmen. When moral suasion failed, concrete action-withdrawal of tens of millions...
...fellow Southerners, Stennis is upset by what he considers the unfair treatment of his region by the Federal Government. To a large extent, his chagrin is understandable. Ever since the Government began its efforts to do away with school segregation, it has aimed its heaviest legal guns at the eleven Southern states, virtually ignoring educational segregation in the North...
Understandably, there is no anti-draft movement in Yugoslavia, as in the United States. The students do see their eleven-month military obligation as a nuisance or a waste, but they go without question. Many of them, I suppose, would be against killing. But the only war they know would be in defense against an outside aggressor...
...boys made a sound case for his claim. They intercepted Tiger Quarterback Terry McMillan five times. When Missouri Coach Dan Devine sent in another pitcher, Chuck Roper, the Penn State secondary responded by intercepting two more throws for a record total of seven. Penn State Quarterback Chuck Burkhart completed eleven passes for 187 yds. and a touchdown. Final score: Penn State 10, Missouri 3. Said Devine: "If I had to vote, I'd vote a tie between Penn State and Texas...
...clients in 110 countries. Despite the natural resistance created by falling stock and mutual-fund prices, the high-voltage organization last year almost doubled its sales, to $3.1 billion. Just under $1 billion in cash flowed into the company's coffers. I.O.S. not only manages eleven mutual funds of its own but has spread into almost every major field of finance. It owns or controls six insurance companies, a dozen banks and finance firms scattered from Italy to the Netherlands Antilles, real estate subsidiaries selling condominium apartments in Spain and Florida, even a small computer outfit and a financial...