Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pinch. Cutbacks in defense spending have slowed the jaunty California economy. Defense contractors such as Lockheed, Northrop and McDonnell Douglas may dismiss as many as 20,000 of their 125,000 workers by year's end. And California agriculture, the state's largest industry, is suffering through the fourth year of a severe drought. "There's no engine of growth in sight," says Larry Kimbell, director of the Business Forecasting Project at the U.C.L.A. School of Management. "In the past, one sector after another took the lead in sustaining the economic expansion. But we currently see no such activity...
...witness likened the enormous ball of fire to a nuclear explosion. A truck driver thought it looked as if "a rocket just took off." Shortly before midnight on the day after the Fourth of July, a devastating explosion leveled a block-square section of the 564-acre Atlantic Richfield chemical plant in Channelview, Texas, east of Houston. At least 17 workers died. The blast occurred while crews were working near tanks that hold petrochemical residues and waste water from the plant...
...opening day of school in September, Smith, 46, gives his students blank grids and tells them to draw their versions of the globe. These are revealing documents. One student skipped Europe altogether. Another put Antarctica at the North Pole. A third had Asia due north of Europe, while a fourth placed England squarely in Africa. "My first map was a complete disgrace," admits Adrian Nivola. Recalls Tao Nguyen: "I drew a big blob...
...lost her fourth-round Wimbledon match to the No. 1 seeded Steffi Graf. So what? In a sport of whining millionaires, the 14-year-old U.S. phenom was endearing and ebullient in defeat: "I enjoyed being out there with her. I thought she was just great." Love match...
...Blinded by the vision of enthusiastic voters carrying him on their shoulders, he decided to forge ahead -- never mind the bickering of the Poles, the reluctance of the Soviets and the suspicions of the rest of the world. Kohl was not to be ruffled by the specter of a Fourth Reich evoked by foreign or domestic critics who accused him of jingoism, and for a few weeks he enjoyed one historic moment after another and put on more and more weight...