Word: 97th
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...these people inching toward work or back from it spend more of their income on retail goods than people do in any other city. This city is ranked 97th in what Sales & Marketing Management magazine calls median household after-tax "effective buying income" ($23,655), yet it is first in retail sales. New Yorkers spend 37% of their effective buying income on retail goods; Angelenos spend 48%. In 1982, in Beverly Hills, where the figure has to be skewed by out-of-town buyers, $143 million was spent on clothing, $72 million on cars, $96 million on general merchandise...
Similar results emerge when examining the relative contributions to American leadership. In the 97th Congress, 44 senators and representatives have studied in Cambridge, 23 in New Haven. Six American Presidents did time at Harvard, two at Yale (although both had special distinctions--William Howard Taft, a College graduate, was the largest President, Gerald R. Ford of the Law School, was the only unelected...
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About 95% of the students at Waller were black; enrollment at Lincoln Park is 56% black. This year 200 applied for the 30 places in Lincoln Park's International Baccalaureate program, an academically demanding two-year curriculum, and students who scored in the 97th percentile on the entrance exam were turned away. Says Stephen Ballis, an insurance executive and neighborhood parent: "This used to be a half-filled building, isolated from the community. Now it's overcrowded. Excellence and expectations of excellence are contagious...
...Waltke's costume signified, the decidedly un-Victorian game of tennis is visiting its past again, spending a 97th fortnight at Wimbledon. Last week, on just one typical afternoon at the old club, eighth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis lost, chucked his racquet into the stands and refused to talk to anybody. Fifteenth-seeded Hank Pfister, able to put more top spin on his racquet, bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction...