Word: sixth
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Their efforts can be surprisingly effective. Barbara Lewis' sixth-grade class at Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City not only pressured the Environmental Protection Agency into clearing a 50,000-bbl. hazardous waste dump but helped push through a reluctant state legislature a bill to pay for such cleanups. "Parents believe you can't beat city hall, and find reasons not to get involved," says Andrew Altman, a spokesman for Greenpeace. "Kids don't have that kind of cynicism. They just get things done...
...sadly, "I stayed , drunk for about five years." He took his meals at a city trash container and rotated in and out of county medical clinics. But sooner or later he would stop taking his medicine, get drunk and wake up strapped down in a hospital bed. After his sixth trip to a state mental institution, caseworkers sent him to the El Rey Treatment Facility...
With fifth seed Farokh Pandole, sixth seed Adrien Ezra and ninth seed Neal Tew absent, Saturday's victory testifies to the depth and flexibility of this year's team. If all the nine lives of the squash team are healthy in early January, the team national championship in Atlanta is well within reach...
...truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations, it is 29th in terms of wine consumption...
...dominate are old cultural patters that persist despite changes in the law. Among the most pernicious of these are beliefs about the acceptability of force in sexual intimacy. Renee Landers '77, Professor of Law at Boston College, reported in the Radcliffe Quarterly about a recent study of 1700 sixth- through ninth-grade students in Rhode Island. Despite our laws to the contrary and despite the general improvement in understanding about women's rights in society, 65 percent of the boys and 57 percent of the girls responded affirmatively to the question of whether it was all right...