Word: 22nd
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...finished under .500 the next year, Moreno did the unthinkable for a sports owner: he lowered the cost of family-ticket packages and upper-deck seating, cut the price of premium draft beer from $8.50 to $6.75 and increased payroll to field a competitive team. The Angels have the 22nd lowest (out of 30) average-ticket price in baseball and the fourth highest payroll. Result: the team won a division title last season and drew a record 3.4 million fans to Angels Stadium; 2.8 million have already purchased seats this year. Overall revenues jumped 16.7% last season, to $140 million...
...choice, virtually unappeasable. Tomohiko Taniguchi, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., says, "You're looking at a neighbor who doesn't want to accept any apology." Despite Koizumi's words of contrition last weekend (which, according to some counts, would mark the 22nd time Japan has apologized) and the $35 billion of foreign aid Japan has given to China over the years, some of these observers fear that Chinese leaders will continue to play the history card whenever they consider it expedient. "In the post-cold-war era, the [Chinese] Communist Party is using nationalism...
Thursday night began at 8 p.m., celebrating a friend’s 22nd by watching The OC and drinking Cook’s from paper dining hall cups. When the champagne was gone I decided it would be a good idea to make myself multiple rounds of disgusting-tasting drinks from whatever random alcohol was lying around. I didn’t have any Coke, so I used those little strawberry-shaped candies with the hard outside and the soft inside as a chaser. Yummy...
...team’s most impressive national performance since 2001, the Crimson finished a reputable 22nd place among national swimming powerhouses that fielded entire teams for the three-day competition...
...yard freestyle performance, coupled with Cromwell’s finish in the 200-yard backstroke, moved Harvard up to 22nd from 25th place on the last day of competition...