Word: third
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...unaffected calm "because he comes from nonfancy people." His parents were both teachers. In 1954 they packed David, 13, and their three younger children into the family Plymouth and moved from Illinois to California. Although undiagnosed dyslexia had prevented him from learning to read until he was in the third grade, by high school David was a pretty good student, an excellent debater and so proficient a bridge player that he hired himself out as a paid tournament partner for adults trying to rack up master points...
...Greenspan, who hiked interest rates six times to head off wage pressures and inflation, do his job too well? The Commerce Department on Thursday revised third-quarter economic growth Thursday down to 2.2 percent, the lowest since 1996 and a far cry from Q2's 5.6 percent. And barring a Christmas retail-sales miracle this weekend, Q4 isn't looking much better. Consumer confidence is down. Auto sales are down. Everything is down, except unemployment...
...constantly threatened by political, economic and demographic shifts in the Arab world. An ingredient is the continuing population explosion among Muslims. The planet's population is due to increase by more than a billion people by 2015, most of the net gain being in the cities of the Third World where they're unlikely to feel much of the "trickle down" benefit of globalization. In addition, the report notes frankly that most oil-producing states in the Arab world are unlikely to spend much of their wealth on the needs of their poor citizens - ironically, an issue receiving more attention...
Under the current format of Major League Baseball, the Yankees will never finish lower than third place in their division. Never. The Twins will never finish higher than third. Never. It just won't happen. That statement alone is absolutely absurd. In the history of professional sports, there has never been as much inequality as there is now in Major League Baseball...
Barbara Grayson, the third-year student who serves on the Law School's ad board, does not see the situation in the same light. She says she feels the confidentiality of the cases she hears makes it easier for her to be a student representative...