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13 These changes would increase revenue by another nine-tenths of a billion dollars.
Having been through those huge postwar sci-fi voting machines, and then those infernal punch-card contraptions seemingly designed to deny the franchise to the bottom nine-tenths of the bell curve, we especially enjoyed the new technological breakthrough adopted by the election board (or whoever) here in suburban Seattle.
A milliwarhol , or about nine-tenths of a second of fame, might appropriately be named after the tyke whose rescue became a brief focus of attention last summer after he fell through the hole of an outhouse.
(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.)
The truth is that almost all writing about first ladies chews more than it bites off--including, I think, nine-tenths of the ink we've all spilled over HRC.