Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Californian rented a truck for a day and returned it with a nearly empty tank, even though the truck had gone only eleven miles. To discourage similar siphoning, some major auto agencies rented out cars with tanks only one-eighth full. But for the second straight week, most drivers just sat in line for up to five hours, sunbathing, playing Scrabble, writing poetry in response to a San Diego radio station contest, reading magazines and newspapers and exchanging them with others in line. Highway officials reported that driving was down 15% on freeways and as much as 25% on city...
...island's burgeoning economic strength. Last year the republic had a 12.8% real growth in gross national product, based largely on a foreign trade of $23.7 billion, greater than that of the mainland. Two-way trade with the U.S. amounted to $7.4 billion, making Taiwan America's eighth largest trading partner. Total foreign investment, mainly from the U.S. and Japan, is $2 billion. Though some of this dates back to the 1950s, about $500 million has been invested so far in 1979 alone. Some American companies, including Ford, Chrysler, Bechtel and Westinghouse, are plowing new money into Taiwan...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror,Barbara W. Tuchman Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson The Powers That Be,David Halberstam The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky To Set the Record Straight. John J. Sirica
...would have been even par through the ninth except that he white-knuckled three putts of less than a yard on the sixth, seventh, and eighth holes. He made his fourth straight bogey on number nine, a demanding 410-yd. par four with an elevated green flanked by traps, where his three-iron to the green caught the sand...
...tracksters were without seven key performers during the windswept meet. Penn captured its eighth title in nine years with 62.5 points, 12 more than defending champ Cornell. Army and Navy fought fiercely to edge the thinclads, who notched 37 points...