Word: 153rd
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...have hated daylight-saving time since the 153rd time it was explained to me. I hate the useless mnemonic device (Why can't you "spring back" or "fall ahead"?). I hate getting caught in that grating conversation that starts with "Does that mean I get an extra hour of sleep or have to wake up an hour early?" I hate unnecessarily complicating something as simple as the time. Daylight-saving time costs this country $100 billion a year in missed meetings and wasted labor reprogramming VCRs. That figure, for those wondering, was calculated by taking the number $100 billion...