Word: 87th
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They became at least the 86th and 87th Colombian journalists to be killed or wounded in this decade -- and the ninth and tenth known victims since the cocaine cartels vowed retaliation last August against "journalists who have attacked and abused us." Although drug lords have also menaced judges, law- enforcement officials and industrialists, they have hit news organizations with special savagery. Pulido, in fact, escaped injury in an explosion at his headquarters in June. When he was struck down last week, the national newspaper El Tiempo editorialized that the attack was probably a punishment for his years of unrelenting struggle...
Once again Princeton is strong at the top. Princeton's first three players are Diana Gardner, Lauren Fortgang and Martha Leggart. Gardner is ranked 87th in the Volvo/ITC poll and Fortgang is currently ranked 68th...
Once the obsession takes hold, it becomes clear that while gardening may be many things for many people, dirt cheap it ain't. Among the quickest ways to run through a fortune is to approach the garden with the eye of a connoisseur. "Trees are my 87th collection," admits Louis Meizel, who, with his wife Susan, owns a SoHo art gallery and a 3 1/2-acre Long Island farm. "As with all our collections, our goal is to put together the best of each kind in the world." They have spent about $100,000 thus far, in part because they...
...wants to "professionalize the workplace." Lately he has been lobbying for across-the-board raises. Hairston believes in discipline (which he prefers to call "reality therapy") and has greatly diversified the curriculum -- "from dance to drafting," even to Russian. Under such policies reading scores have soared into the 87th percentile nationally from a dismal 28th. Math scores are up from 60% to 85%. This miracle has been pulled off in a mere year and a half, which, Hairston claims, is plenty of time "if you have an organizational structure, economy and support; if you know what you want...
...87th edition of the Harvard men's hockey team has a mission to accomplish this season...