Word: third
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...never had any intention of letting Americans run Daimler. This month the DaimlerChrysler chairman decided they couldn't run Chrysler either. Schrempp fired Chrysler president James Holden and brought in a Mercedes veteran, Dieter Zetsche, after it was announced that the U.S. automaker had lost $512 million in the third quarter, its first loss since 1991--and, by all accounts, the first of several to come. Zetsche arrived with his own German chief operating officer in tow and, on his first day at work last Monday, promptly canned three more Chrysler execs. That brought to more than a dozen...
...Allstate, the second largest underwriter of homeowner policies in the U.S., stopped offering such coverage a couple years ago. Industry leader State Farm Group is eliminating the coverage state by state. Third-ranked Farmer's Insurance has stopped the coverage as well. Of the 15 largest underwriters, only Chubb continues to offer guaranteed replacement value, says the Insurance Information Institute. And even Chubb has stopped offering it in harsh-weather zones...
...body's message is not always so clear. You can have angina without necessarily having a heart attack, and you can have a heart attack without the chest pains of angina. Fully one-third of all heart-attack victims feel no muscle pain at all, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association last summer. Their most common symptom is extreme shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. Other signs include nausea, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, fainting, palpitations or unexplained anxiety...
...seemingly gnomic statement that nails Davis precisely. Unable to execute the speedy, flowing lines of be-bop, he instead found a voice whose terse eloquence resided not only in his exquisite, lapidary phrases but in the silent spaces between them as well. On Blue in Green, the album's third cut, there are passages of such poised stillness that they constitute a sort of aural photograph, a moment perfectly preserved...
APPOINTED. THEODORE MCCARRICK, 70, Archbishop of Newark, advocate for debt relief in Third World countries and supporter of immigration; to head the high-profile Archdiocese of Washington. McCarrick succeeds retiring Cardinal James Hickey. Like all bishops, McCarrick is expected to resign...