Word: 144th
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That’s right, the baseball team is back for its 144th year—older, even, than that one and only baseball poem “Casey at the Bat.” But hope, just like then, still “springs eternal...
...years of reform, the government only focused on economic development," says Song Wenzhi, a professor at the Peking University Public Health Institute in Beijing. "It neglected social issues, such as health." No surprise, then, that a 2000 who study ranking the health systems of 191 member countries placed China 144th, behind Indonesia and Bangladesh...
Ridgway often drove along the strip on his way to and from work. He would cruise slowly by single women, and was in the habit of parking in the lot at Larry's Market on 144th Street or the 7-Eleven at 142nd Street, where he could scan the street. Leading off the strip was a network of small streets. Many of its houses had been abandoned when SeaTac Airport expanded its flight path directly overhead, and this is where the girls liked to turn their tricks. The passing planes muffled any sounds, and the streets were mostly deserted...