Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of Central Intelligence, Turner is the first to use an office away from Langley for his broader D.C.I, duties. This second rack for his second hat is a suite of five rooms in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. He spends at least a fourth of his working hours there and sees Carter alone for a half-hour every Tuesday and Friday. He also sits in on Monday Cabinet meetings...
Spearheading the import drive are the Japanese automakers. Toyota's models are the biggest sellers, Datsun's second and Honda's third. Volkswagen, once the undisputed leader in auto imports, now ranks fourth-even though sales were up 80% in May over a year earlier. Part of the reason for the imports' jolting success is that they are generally small compacts, lean on fuel and relatively comfortable to drive. One senior Detroit auto executive wondered last week "how the foreigners can produce that much value for the money." Some industry analysts think that foreign-car sales...
Comprising nine sections with 173 articles, the draft of the new constitution, the Soviet Union's fourth, will be discussed in factories, collective farms, offices and schools all over the U.S.S.R. Possibly in a slightly altered form, but without substantive changes, the text will almost certainly be approved by the Supreme Soviet, the nation's rubber-stamp parliament, in time for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution next November...
...flurry over how to handle it. Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles, then president of the society, says: "We were aware that it was an explosive document." In an effort to avert criticism, Dulles assigned three scholars to review the work and make suggestions to the committee before the fourth and final draft was written...
...full-time writer, Erdman divides his time between his magnificent redwood contemporary home overlooking San Francisco Bay and a 40-acre ranch in Sonoma. He is well along on his fourth novel about "international corporate bribery"-which seemingly would not find a market if The Crash of '79 actually occurs. Erdman happily admits that it probably will not; he wrote the book, he says, primarily for enjoyment and secondarily "to alert people to what could happen." The hell of it is, nobody can say his doomsday scenario is flat-out impossible...