Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Even if last week's death sentence is upheld by the Missouri courts, Faye Copeland may yet be spared the lethal needle. Given the length of death-row appeals in the state -- usually seven to 11 years -- legal observers say it is more likely that she will simply die in prison...
...troops still stationed in East Germany occupy some 2,000 military "objects," which means everything from barracks to hospitals to airfields. If the Soviets meet the current four-year timetable for withdrawal, they will have to dispose $ of about 500 of those "objects" annually, more than one a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. The economic dislocations -- not to mention the munitions tonnage -- could be explosive...
...once sat next to seven-year-old boy who insisted on playing me in checkers for four consecutive hours. After throwing game after game to keep him happy, I heard him tell his dad that he had been sitting next to an "idiot." When I exacted my revenge with a decisive victory, he began to cry, and told his father I had cheated. Plus: I get free cookies and soda. Minus: Child-abuse laws are applicable on trains...
Smith, who is originally from England and has been working in the South for seven years, also echoed Friedman's description of widespread racism in the judiciary...
...Seven months after a series of bloody riots persuaded him to agree to end 30 years of one-man rule, King Birendra Shah of Nepal last week promulgated a new constitution that reduces him to a mainly symbolic monarch. Like a British ruler, Birendra would serve as a figurehead who could act only with the approval of a council and Prime Minister. But he could still declare a national emergency following foreign aggression, deep economic crisis or armed revolt...