Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale--fourth and 12 with, less than 20 seconds to go--the tight end cut over the middle--the reception at the eight-yard line--the Mike Lynch field goal seconds later...
...inflation through its unchecked spending. Next year's federal budget deficit, which is now projected to top $50 billion, is at least an improvement on the $60.6 billion that Carter had originally proposed in January, but it is still far too large for an economy in the fourth year of expansion. Cutting the budget is the most effective way to hold down prices, and that in turn would be the best persuasion to stop labor leaders from demanding inflation-fueling pay rises...
...controversial decision to allow the joining of the nation's seventh (Jones & Laughlin) and eighth (Youngstown) largest steelmakers into what will become the third or fourth biggest clearly hinged on Lykes' doomsday prediction. That prophecy could have proved self-fulfilling, because customers, suppliers and creditors all began to abandon the company for fear it would collapse. Bell rejected his own in-house advice that Lykes could be saved and competition maintained by selling assets to raise cash. The weakness of the company, he said, "led me to conclude that Lykes faced a grave probability of a business failure...
...Fourth, the Congress can reduce the farmers' costs by easing some of the stringent, and sometimes silly, environmental rules that restrict use of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers...
...Roosevelt, the President; George Catlett Marshall, the regnant chief of staff; Harry Luce, the publisher of my magazine; and the U.S. Navy. ("White," he said, "the best navy in the world is the Japanese Navy. A first-class navy. Then comes the British Navy. The U.S. Navy is a fourth-class navy, not even as good as the Italian Navy.") He was completely wrong in this in the spring of 1942, for the U.S. Navy was about to prove...