Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...gushing crude prices than the airlines. Loaded with debt after a string of mergers, takeovers and multibillion-dollar orders for new aircraft, U.S. carriers are reeling under the one-two punch of explosive fuel costs and a recessionary slowdown in air travel. Says Stephen Wolf, head of United Airlines: "Fourth-quarter projections for the industry are nothing short of alarming...
...Perez de Cuellar proposed a direct Security Council role in protecting Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a report ordered by the council after 20 Arabs were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians...
...Crimson's blue line, the fourth to take the ice, showed the team's balance by making the score 2-0 with 9:51 to play in the period. Junior forward Tim Burke, standing behind the Brown net, fed sophomore linemate Steve Flomenhoft at the crease to compound Haywood's nightmare...
...Souza entered her most impressive zone at the most important time of last season--the Ivy League tournament. The Crimson had struggled to a 4-5-1 Ivy record in the regular season, good for fourth place in the league and a first-round playoff date with undefeated Cornell, heavily favored...
Though Japanese women are among the best-educated women in the world, they are, by Western standards, second-class citizens in their own country. Traditional values discourage women from appearing outspoken or independent- minded and demoralize those who try to climb the political or business hierarchies. Only one-fourth of major Japanese corporations have any women at all in the middle-management or higher ranks. In government, women constitute less than 1% of management-level bureaucrats and about 6% of the 764 Diet members. The average woman's annual income amounts to only half that...