Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...completely furnished, one-to five-bedroom apartment in buildings erected for them by the West German government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed downtown in the rambling American Arms Hotel. Nearly 400 single girls take their ease in the $2,760,000 Amelia Earhart Residence Hotel, seven stories of attractive rooms complete with wall-to-wall carpeting and picture windows overlooking the Rhine valley...
...sterilized" Indian peasants have beaten their pregnant wives or abandoned them in the uninformed belief that they must have committed adultery. Vasectomies are also not necessarily permanent; if the original ligature is not too close to the testes, a skilled surgeon can perform a successful reunion in about seven out of ten cases...
...Reach frequently called numbers by dialing two digits instead of seven. ¶ Route incoming calls to another phone if the first line is busy. ¶ Transfer calls to another number. Thus, when called away to a friend's house while expecting an important message, the telephone user need only dial a code number to have the call routed to him. ¶Convert extension phones to household intercom units by dialing two digits...
...including such big names as General Electric. Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers-and 48 present or former executives of those companies. All were charged by the Government with criminally conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment over the last seven years...
...feared that otherwise the cases would drag on for years. In months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, often in Judge Ganey's chambers, both sides worked out a tentative agreement: the Government would accept nolo pleas in 13 of the cases, but would expect defendants in the other seven cases to plead guilty. Judge Ganey has indicated that, in ruling on the pleas, he intends to go along with the Government's request...