Word: fourth
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Besides, advocates say, although Hawaii is the fourth smallest state, it ranks seventh in state-owned forest land, with 364,370 hectares (900,000 acres). Another 109,320 hectares (270,000 acres) are wildlife refuges, and 11,740 hectares (29,000 acres) are solely or jointly managed by the Nature Conservancy. "To suggest that the state of Hawaii is a villain for recklessly demolishing its rain forests is insulting and unfair," said Senator Daniel Inouye in June, while asking Congress to appropriate $15 million for Hawaiian geothermal research...
...dropped inflation to 3.29% in April. Collor also announced the immediate abolition of two dozen state agencies and said he would sell off most state-owned industries. In addition, he called for massive public-sector layoffs and higher taxes. The cruzado novo was replaced by the cruzeiro, Brazil's fourth currency in four years...
Walking into Foxboro Stadium last week, the music of "Got to Get You Into my Life" sounded, felt and looked as if the Beatles were playing it live. On its feet and cheering, the crowd saluted only one-fourth of that celebrated group. On stage was Paul McCartney, one man trying to revive the magic that was the Beatles...
Last year for the first time the summer box-office revenue topped $2 billion. The surge was led by Batman, which cost $50 million to produce but brought in $251 million at the domestic wickets to rank as the fourth all-time movie hit. Not far behind -- at $197 million, ninth on the all-time list -- was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a gilt-edged sequel. These successes seemed to validate the rules that Hollywood likes to play by: bet big to win big; and if it worked before, do it again...
...years White sought a cure through analysis. "But in my fourth and final go at therapy (this time, at last, with a gay psychoanalyst), I'd finally come to some sort of terms with my homosexuality," White writes in States of Desire. By the time he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1962, he had accepted -- indeed become fully committed to -- a homosexual life and life-style. He moved to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, working by day, writing by night, and coming to the realization that his art would suffer unless his culture were reflected in his writing...