Word: quartered
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Whenever the U.S. economy develops engine trouble, Detroit's automakers are among the first to pull over to the side of the road. True to that tradition, General Motors acknowledged last week that it was likely to report an operating loss for the fourth quarter, its first such deficit in four years. The world's largest auto company had operating income of $109 million in the third quarter before a $2.1 billion charge for plant closings pushed it into the red. GM attributed its latest problems to slack demand that has led the company to reduce its fourth-quarter...
...quarter century of alleged abuse finally took its toll on a Mt. Auburn St. landmark yesterday, when city-commissioned landscapers cut down the historic tree in front of the One Freedom Square headquarters of The Harvard Lampoon...
...Native Americans in general, and Navajos in particular, have one of the nation's highest rates of illiteracy and high school delinquency. The average Navajo adult has received * only five years of schooling. Today half the Navajos on the reservation are under the age of 20, and perhaps a quarter of those teenagers are not in school. A third of all high school-age Native Americans are classified as educationally handicapped...
Bolivia and Peru. The coca cash cow continues to feed the economies of both countries, providing peasant farmers with a lucrative crop. Bolivia obtains more than a third of its $1.2 billion in foreign exchange from cocaine, while Peru gets about a quarter of its $4 billion. Although both nations would like to cease their dependence on cocaine, they dare not press too strongly for fear of provoking civil unrest. In Bolivia the use of U.S. troops in 1986 to destroy drug labs sparked violent protests. Peru's new President, Alberto Fujimori, fearful of pushing recruits into the arms...
Mostly that solution boils down to Montana, 34, who leads the N.F.C. in passing yards. He may be the best quarterback ever to play the game. In 12 years he has led the 49ers to comeback wins in the fourth quarter an amazing 25 times. Montana is the acknowledged master of the two-minute drill to race the clock to the end zone. In the Nov. 4 game against the Green Bay Packers, with only 38 sec. remaining in the first half and his team down 10-0, Montana took the 49ers 59 yds. in 27 sec. to jump-start...