Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion take on Carter's decontrol decision. That's more than double the annual appropriation for defense spending.) Instead, the oil companies may well choose to buy up other energy producers, giving them even greater control of our energy future, while doing almost nothing to help increase energy production. Eleven oil companies already own 25 per cent of the coal industry, according to a September 1979 issue of Business Week, and are beginning to buy up the best small solar firms, jeopardizing the future of competition in the energy field...
...tried, too late, to lift the DC-10 back into the air. The plane smashed into the truck, veered wildly to the right, wound up slamming into an Eastern Air Lines maintenance building and burst into flames. The final death count was 73: a total of 60 passengers, eleven crew members, including Gilbert, and two people on the ground...
Force it has been, on both sides. In the time since the Pope's visit, eleven have died in the unending violence. Though the number of active I.R.A. members remains small-600 to 700, against 30,000 British troops and police-their lightning ambushes have grown even harder to combat as their equipment and weapons have become more sophisticated...
...milder forms of the disease than Merrick's, physicians are now able to deal with much of the deformity of neurofibromatosis by surgery. Some of these operations are for purely cosmetic reasons. In one recent case, for example, plastic surgery was used to treat a girl of eleven who had a fold of fibrotic skin hanging from her genital area. Said Dr. P. Bela Fodor, who performed the operation at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan:"There's a good chance she will never have a recurrence and that she will go on to live a normal...
...miles a year as a star of the U.S. lecture circuit. Her outline of the five phases of death-from angry denial to final acceptance-is routinely taught at school and hospital seminars. Readers of the Ladies' Home Journal chose Kübler-Ross as one of eleven "women of the decade" for the 1970s. Even the movies are beginning to take account of the phenomenon: Bob Fosse's forthcoming film, All That Jazz, features a death-obsessed dancer-director who turns to Kübler-Ross's works for comfort...