Word: fourth
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...puts the total loss of revenue at $400 million a year. A quarter of that loss occurs in New York: other hard-hit states include Texas ($45 million), Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that the Mob's infiltration has led to "increasing violent crime: extortion and bribery, truck hijackings, armed robberies, serious assaults and even murder" of one smuggler by another...
...Communist attacks against U.S. Middle East policy and especially against Israel. Both the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce favored the pullout-the first American withdrawal from a U.N. agency. The action will wipe out U.S. financial support of the I.L.O., which amounts to about a fourth of the 135-member organization's $80 million annual budget...
...responsible for the ho-hum ending was also one of extremes. First there was Yale's sophomore punter Mike Sullivan standing on his own 35-yard line early in the final quarter of a game the Elis led, 10-7. He faced a nine-man Crimson front on this fourth-and-21 situation; he was supposed to be kicking the ball to the Crimson...
Harvard finally crossed midfield late in the fourth quarter when Connors snagged a bullet from quaterback Jacobs and loped down to the Yale five-yard line...
...Yale (and you have to start wondering what they feed them down in New Haven) once more gritted its teeth, sacking Jacobs and then knocking aside a desperation fourth down pass in the end-zone...