Word: fourth
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Harvard officials justify their role in the Cambridge community by pointing to Harvard and MIT, the city's largest employers. It is estimated that the two universities spend more than $80 million each year and rank as the third and fourth largest tax payers. Harvard pays $1,533,000 in property taxes and $507,000 in lieu of taxes. The figures may rank Harvard as one of the top ten tax payers, but it is not enough for those who see nothing but Harvard buildings sprawled over the some 20 acres it owns in Cambridge...
...side of Williamsburg was populated by upwardly mobile immigrant Jews from Europe. When they moved elsewhere, progressively poorer blacks and Hispanics took their places. A month ago, members of the Love Brothers, a Hispanic gang, began terrorizing the 100 or so residents of a six-story building on South Fourth Street, tearing out the building's pipes, smashing windows and furnishings and peddling whatever could be moved. They got $35 a stove, $25 a refrigerator, $10 a sink, $3 a steam radiator. By week's end the building was a cannibalized hulk, and all the tenants were gone...
...According to reports from Beirut, all four hijackers were Palestinians associated with the notorious terrorist Wadi el Haddad. Three died in the Mogadishu raid; the fourth remained in a Somali hos-pitalJast week...
...International Labor Organization, a vestige of the same Treaty of Versailles that set up the League, may die for similar reasons. By the end of this week, the Carter Administration will have to decide whether to keep the U.S. in the I.L.O. or withdraw its heavy support?currently a fourth of the 135-member organization's $80 million annual budget. If the U.S. does withdraw, it would be a severe blow to the Geneva-based I.L.O. and mark the first time that the U.S. has pulled out of any international organization...
...which was 15 seconds slower than his winning time last year, as a dank mist enshrouding the Bronx slowed down the field. Dean Stevens of Dartmouth traversed the circuit in 25:02 to come in the runner-up while Princeton's Bruce Barnes and Jerry Kooymans finished third and fourth...