Word: fourth
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...fourth reader is considered a "specialty" reader...Other fourth readers serve as "ethnic" readers who review large numbers of applications from a specific minority group. By doing this, "ethnic" readers develop a greater awareness of the overall attributes of the particular minority group in an applicant class. Harvard uses ethnic or fourth readers for Asian American, Black, Hispanic and Native American applicants. The primary purpose of the Asian American "ethnic" read (reading) is to provide an additional or different sensitivity to the review of the application. The ethnic read is designed to ensure that no special cultural or ethnic factors...
...Clifton, N. J. Joining the fun were Mike's pals Johnny (whose best friend, he says, is Jewish) and Peter (whose grandfather rescued Holocaust Jews in Holland). I HATE JEWS, scrawled one boy. GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY, wrote another. After squirting the house with blue paint, a fourth boy, Tony sprayed a swastika on the car of Saul Shaw, a 79-year-old Jew who lives a few blocks away. Markovitz's temple and a kosher delicatessen were also barraged. That was 1988, but for the next two years the aftermath of these hate crimes continued to roil...
...central issue in Minnesota, where Republican Jon Grunseth is trying to unseat Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich. Earlier this month, two women came forth with affidavits charging that Grunseth had encouraged them to remove their bathing suits and skinny-dip with him at his backyard pool at a July Fourth party in 1981. The women were 13 and 14 at the time. Insisting that the event never occurred, Grunseth called Perpich a "supreme liar" for denying that he had put the women up to making the charge...
...Jackson, who was 5 or 6, climbed into the family's Lafayette sedan with assorted cousins. They drove from their farm near Topeka over to Abilene, Kans., for a family reunion at his great- aunt Ida Eisenhower's white frame house on Fourth Street, south of the tracks. Her son Dwight was either in Washington or Europe, even then on the edge of his great fame...
...always been ruled by finance men, numbers wizards and balance-sheet fixers. No one was a better example of this than Roger Smith, a diffident financial virtuoso who led the company during the 1980s. But when Smith retired last July after a decade in which GM lost one-fourth of its U.S. market share, mostly because of weak products, GM's board made history by promoting an engineer to the chairman...