Word: 58th
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Ronald Reagan, retired President, drifted through Europe last week on a cloud of warm reverie and adoration. He collected a knighthood from the British (only the 58th American to do so), and was inducted into the French % Institute's Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (only the sixth U.S. President to make...
...economy passed two impressive milestones last week. First, the nation completed its 58th consecutive month of growth, tying a peacetime record. Then the Government announced that for the first time in this decade the unemployment rate fell below 6%, dipping one-tenth of a percentage point from its August rate, to 5.9%, in September. Most of the employment growth over the past five years has been in services. But the manufacturing sector, recently reinvigorated by rising exports, accounted for fully 40% of the 132,000 new jobs created last month. Said Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist of the National Association...
...well-known but seldom mentioned urban woes in painful detail. A million Muscovites still live in communal apartments where they share cooking and toilet facilities with other families, Yeltsin pointed out, while in the past decade the city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished as a problem but has simply been driven indoors by Gorbachev's antidrinking campaign, while drug abuse is "widespread" and thievery in retail stores is rife. "We dig and dig," he reportedly said, "and still...
FOOTNOTE: *For the record, Juventus won, 1-0, with a penalty kick in the 58th minute of play...
Catliff jumped onto the stat sheet again in the 58th minute when he headed a Matt Cameron cross to the left of Sarnacki, who got a hand on the shot but was not able to stop...