Word: 33rd
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...mission is to patrol two U.S.-created no-fly zones, one above the 36th parallel and the other below the 33rd, in order to keep Saddam boxed in and unable to attack Iraq's ethnic minorities. When threatened by Iraqi air defenses, U.S. pilots are authorized to fire missiles and drop bombs on such sites, as they have done 323 times since 1999. The effort could have turned into a series of bloody clashes and perhaps even an excuse for a full-scale war. But despite some 250,000 sorties and a bounty on the pilots' heads--Saddam has offered...
...know there are many ways to make workers into owners--and knowing which ways work is crucial. "We're very concerned that people understand the whole story," says Bill Roper, 55, chief financial officer of SAIC, a worker-owned engineering company in San Diego that just posted its 33rd consecutive year of growing sales...
...addition to its pitching strength, another encouraging Crimson trend was its ability to outdo its opponents on the basepaths. The poised freshman catcher Miller caught a Terrier stealing to give Crimson opponents just eight steals on 12 attempts this season. Stefanchik gave Harvard its 33rd steal in 37 attempts, a tribute to Allard’s preseason change of philosophy and some healthy drills in the offseason...
...elite club: he is one of 11 athletes who are the sole representatives of their countries at these Salt Lake City Games. From 20-year-old Shiva Keshavan, who carried the hopes of 1.1 billion Indians with him down the icy luge track (he came in a surprising 33rd out of 50), to slalom skier Gian Matteo Giordani, who will represent the tiny European enclave of San Marino today, none of them entered believing they had a chance to end up on the podium. Some, like South African Alpine skier Alex Heath, think they could strike gold, if only they...
...since then, hundreds of millions of people - old, young, rich and poor - have died or been blinded or disfigured by the smallpox virus. This story was supposed to have a happy ending: On May 8, 1980, nearly 200 years after Edward Jenner first inoculated a patient against smallpox, the 33rd Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally announced the eradication of the disease. Sixteen years later, the World Health Assembly recommended that the last smallpox stocks (thought to be held at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow or the Russian...