Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hebert was one of the targets of the rule change. He entered 20 tournaments last year, but played so poorly that he never finished higher than 47th place, and his total money earnings were just $828. Yet each time he competed, a spot in the draw had to be denied to one of the rabbits. P.G.A. Tour Commissioner Deane Beman explains: "An exemption that was unlimited in duration and had no relationship to current abilities was unreasonable. It denied the opportunity for someone else to be able to compete...
...moribund. For the first time in 15 years, both the University of California and California State enrollments are slipping. California's housing market is strong, but most businessmen remain skittish because of a 1975 Dunn & Bradstreet Fantus report that ranked the state's business climate 47th among the 48 states surveyed. For the first time in two decades, industrial investors, put off by bureaucratic red tape and environmental lobbyists, are bypassing California to relocate in other Sunbelt states. Statewide per capita income is still above the national average, but it is declining , as are the populations...
...47th UNITED MINE WORKERS convention ended last Saturday on a surprisingly positive note. Arnold Miller, the union's embattled president, emerged victorious if not unscathed from the parley, which his opponents in the UMW had called for the express purpose of bringing him down...
...Harris' one-woman performance as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst. Tickets can still be obtained for most shows, except A Chorus Line. After 3 p.m. on the day of performance, half-price tickets for many shows may be available at the TKTS booth on Broadway at 47th Street...
...city is, of course, expensive. It also offers sometimes astonishing bargains if the shopper knows where to look. Between Fifth and Sixth avenues on 47th Street, for example, is the diamond district, one of the world's largest. Here diamond merchants, among them Hasidic Jews in black garb, pull around tens of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry in black suitcases on wheels. Discounts are large and bargaining is advisable. Down on the Lower East Side, on Orchard, Grand, Canal and nearby streets, stores offer first-quality, name-brand merchandise (shoes, linens, handbags, clothing, for the most part...