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nahyn tee

  • n  the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine
  • s  being ten more than eighty

  • Statistics published by the Paris Prefecture of Police show that ninety per cent of 190 murders for love or jealousy went unpunished last year.
  • Nineteen ninety-eight was the year Linux came into its own.
  • The northern-hairy nose wombat weighs up to ninety pounds and can measure more than three feet in length.
News & Articles

  • Gays find more US tolerance
    Ninety-two percent of gay US adults say society is more tolerant than ever of their sexual orientation, even as almost 40 percent have kept it hidden from their own father, a poll has found. The survey released yesterday by the Pew Research Center is the most comprehensive study of lesbian...
    June 14, 2013 - New York Post
  • Southern Hospitality: Montgomery Capital Civitan Club gathers for luncheon
    Ninety-seven years young this year, Georgette Sadler has maintained active membership in the Montgomery Capital Civitan Club since it was organized in August 1985.
    June 14, 2013 - Montgomery Advertiser
  • Gay Community Feels Growing Acceptance
    Ninety-two percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults in the U.S. say society has become more accepting of them in the past decade, according to a new Pew survey.
    June 13, 2013 - Wall Street Journal Blogs
Quotes

  • J Edgar Hoover in International Herald Tribune
    The index now contains approximately twelve thousand individuals, of which approximately ninety-seven percent are citizens of the United States,Hoover wrote in the now-declassified document. "In order to make effective these apprehensions,...
  • Abd al-Karim Qasim in Guardian Unlimited
    Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the Iraqi military spokesman, said, "We have not seen such a wave of attacks since the security plan began. These are terrorist challenges. Ninety-five percent of those killed today were civilians."
  • Frederick Douglass in USAID (press release)
    We should not forget that the freedom you and I enjoy today is largely due to the brave stand taken by the black sons of Haiti ninety years ago : striking for their freedom, they struck for the freedom of every black man in the world,said...

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