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  • n  the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight
  • n  a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
  • s  being eight more than seventy

  • One hundred and seventy-eight German submarines were.
  • This frail old man of seventy-eight, who may be a politician among saints, but is no less a saint among politicians.
  • There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty .
News & Articles

  • State releases list of Ala schools failing by law
    State releases list of Ala schools failing by law Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 3:06 pm, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 (AP) — Seventy-eight Alabama schools, mostly poor and from both urban and rural areas, are considered failing, according to a list released Tuesday in response ...
    June 19, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
  • No local schools on state failing list
    MONTGOMERY — Seventy-eight Alabama schools from both urban and rural areas are on the state's list of schools that are failing under a new law, but none are from the Fort Payne City or DeKalb County systems.
    June 18, 2013 - The Times-Journal
  • Alabama Accountability Act Q&A: What's next for those in failing schools?
    Seventy-eight schools were on the list released by the State Department of Education today.
    June 18, 2013 - Mobile Press-Register
Quotes

  • Chet Culver in IowaPolitics.com (press release)
    Seventy-eight Iowa counties were declared Presidential Disaster Areas in 2008 and are still suffering from a loss of affordable housing because of storm or flood damage,Governor Culver said. "With today's investment of Housing Tax Credits,...
  • Joseph Bruno in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
    We're going to get to the facts. We are going to get to the truth,Bruno said on an Albany radio show Tuesday. "Seventy-eight percent of the people want the governor under oath testifying. We're going to get there sooner or later."
  • Antonio Pierce in San Francisco Chronicle
    Seventy-eight yards, I didn't know it was that far,Pierce said. "No wonder I got tired. We got pressure on the quarterback and the ball came to me, and I just took it."

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