Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, even with record turnouts and consistent loyalty from their supporters, city liberals were able to get only four of the nine council seats. Forced to rely for two more years on Vellucci for a fifth progressive vote, they were none too happy last week...
...Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor recently implicated by the press in a 1974 real estate scandal; after swallowing an overdose of barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry of attacks...
...next three finishers were all within a seven-second span right on Beckford's heels. Debbie Schulte from Tiger town took third (16:10), the Bruin's Anne Sullivan placed fourth (16:13), and Yale's Debbie Ulian crossed the finish line fifth...
...earlier. Workers who labor on the piece rate this year--like lettuce harvesters--took in 6 cents less per box, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years ago. Growers paid only 6 1/2 cents per hour into the union's family health plan--about $18 per month--one-fifth the size of the average contribution to a California worker's medical program...
...smiling, slick, charming and aging Hope stood in front of the crowd at the taping of the fifth segment of his upcoming two-hour televesion special, "Bob Hope on Campus...