Rick couldn't believe that it was for real until September, 1972, when he received the tape with some of the material and a nine-page letter from Stan telling him, among other things, "to start practicing his part."

Mr. Clinton laid out his views in a nine-page letter to Representative Newt Gingrich, Republican of Georgia, the Speaker of the House.

At the hearing, the Federal investigator, Leslie G. Wiser, testified about the nine-page letter sent to Mr. Ames in the mid-1980's.

But Officer Thomas, according to prosecutors and city officials, left behind a nine-page letter outlining a raft of misdeeds by officers on the force.

When Mrs. Fisch, a management consultant, narrows her choices, she sends candidates a nine-page letter outlining her child-care needs, to avoid surprises.

Lawyers for Mr. Torricelli fought to keep the nine-page letter under seal, but their arguments were dismissed last week by a federal appellate court; the court rejected their appeal of the ruling yesterday.

It was printed up as a double-spaced nine-page letter.

As for Mr. Sokolow's feelings, we know only that, in his nine-page letter of self-defense to the Texas Tech faculty, he misspelled three words: "plagerism," "plagerizing" and "plagerized."

Shortly after Hills's visit, Pierce issued a nine-page letter summarizing DRG's sins.

Mr. Weingarten's nine-page letter provided new details of the investigation.