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In the 1980's biology became the ninth- grade course of study.

Among teachers' biggest concerns was mixing ninth- and 12th-graders in the same building for the first time.

Some schools recruit eighth- and ninth- grade honors students exclusively.

The Nones were so named because they occurred on the 'ninth' day before the Ides.

First Union, the country's ninth- largest banking company, owns banks in eight Southeastern states and a large discount brokerage subsidiary.

This summer two dozen ninth- and tenth-grade students are to attend a two-week program in mathematics, writing and sciences on the university campus.

"It's much less pleasant since the tests," says Barbara Wilson, who teaches ninth- and 10th-grade math in Boston.

Slumping Minnesota, which finished in second place, takes on ninth- place Alaska-Anchorage at Minneapolis.

Two-week summer programs in acting, creative writing, music and visual arts are available for rising ninth- and tenth-grade studemts.

In Syosset, ninth- and tenth-grade students, working with a psychologist, will meet with groups of elementary students to talk about their fears and concerns.

These students belong to the Temple Connection, a group of 400 ninth- through 11th graders at Lincoln High School in northeast Philadelphia.

"We recently completed the evening program, in which we had 150 ninth- to 12th-grade students recruited from different high schools in the county," Ms. Curtin said.

Egyptian scribes rubbed elbows with ninth- century paladins; Sumerian peasants chatted with Ming Dynasty bureaucrats.

The school's 144 ninth- and 10th-grade students come from 30 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe and speak 22 different languages.

Production of crucible steel by co-fusion: Archaeometallurgical evidence from the ninth- early tenth century at the site of Merv, Turkmenistan.

With subscribers in 11 states, Cablevision, based in Woodbury, L.I., is the nation's ninth- largest cable operator, with gross revenues of $567 million last year.

The regnum of the pope goes back to the Donation of Constantine and its title deeds to the diplomas of the eighth-, ninth- and tenth-century emperors.

Auburn High School is a public high school located in Rockford, Illinois, USA, currently housing close to 2,000 ninth- through twelfth-grade students living in the Rockford school district.

That means, among other things, reorganizing large schools by making schools-within-schools, smaller classes and orientation "houses" for ninth- grade students; hiring more guidance counselors, particularly bilingual counselors, and better coordination of services for troubled students.

This culminated with a fine display at the Brazilian GP, where Sato finished 10th out of 16 finishers, and he and Yamamoto set ninth- and seventh-fastest laps of the race respectively.

Evidence from a metallurgical workshop at Merv, dated to the ninth- early tenth century A.D., provides an illustration of the co-fusion method of steel production in crucibles, about 1000 years earlier than the distinctly different wootz process.

Steps the district has taken at the high school to achieve better results include intensive staff development and, in a target program that will become grade-wide next year, organizing half of the ninth- grade class into a freshmen academy that replicates a middle school team model.

Later on in his discussion of "Space Oddity" he mentions an "almost ethereal sequence of 'ninth' chords that suggested the spaceman hanging free" and a "Mick Wayne guitar solo that seemed to be testing out the walls of Major Tom's prison".

The Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program, created by the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Act in 1992, allows eighth-, ninth- and 10th-grade students who enroll in the program to receive scholarships that will pay their Oklahoma college tuition if they meet income and other requirements.

James A. Alloy, principal of the middle school, said that while children who have taken advanced courses in math or a foreign language can be easily selected for a ninth- grade honors course, placement in ninth-grade honors English and social studies was more complicated.