Word: fifteenth
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Going on its fifteenth year, the Tufts University Women's Center has earned the respect of the school through its activist stance on feminist issues. The Center, funded by Tufts and the Student Center, is staffed by students and is open all day. It includes a living room area and office space...
...follows in the tradition of the original 1965 Voting Rights Act. Congress, hoping to solidify the voting rights guaranteed in the Fifteenth Amendment, passed the first act "to rid the country of racial discrimination in voting." Over the past 30 years, Congress and the courts have outlawed poll fees, literacy tests and intelligence examinations...
Inflation worries arise because state subsidies in the G.D.R. kept many prices artificially low. Rent and the costs of basic foods and public transport typically were a fraction of those in West Germany -- less than one- fifteenth in the case of rent. On the other hand, consumer durables were outrageously overpriced -- and an open market will bring them down...