Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...promised presidential legacy. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, One-Third...
...fight for his budget. After posing for press pictures with his breakfast guests on the north portico of the White House, the President turned to Illinois' Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, wagged a finger, and publicly laid down a challenge to congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President did not need majorities in Congress; all he needed was one-third of the votes plus one vote, in either the Senate or the House, to uphold his vetoes...
...them have banked less than $200 to meet a medical emergency. Says Dr. Sam Gertman, director of the University of Miami's geriatrics division: "An aged person usually can pay for his first illness out of his savings. On the second illness, he mortgages his home. After the third, he goes on the county...
...potential investors the country's biggest asset is Olympio himself, a big man in a small country. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Olympio has almost eliminated a national deficit equal to one-third of the budget by impartially enforcing taxes, carefully auditing government accounts and setting an example of Spartan frugality. Declining to live in the official Prime Minister's house, he often bicycles to work, carefully turns off the refrigerator before going to bed "because I wouldn't want the electric people to think I'm becoming extravagant...
...Hilton broke ground for hotels in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, made plans for construction of another in São Paulo. Total cost: about $21 million. A Brazilian corporation, partly financed by British interests, will build the hotels for operation by Hilton under his customary leaseback terms: a third of net profits will go to Hilton Hotels International, two-thirds to the owners...