Word: fourth
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...squad finished the past season with a 5-4 record, and then slumped to fourth place in the Ivy League Tournament and a disappointing 17th-slot finish in the Eastern aquatic get-together...
Simmons finished seventh in the individual championships, while Jennings was ninth of nine competitors. Bierer copped fifth and Major finished fourth. "They exhausted themselves in the preliminaries and couldn't do it in the finals," Zivkovic said...
...with such arcana as hydrologic modeling and the chemistry of air pollution. Convinced that practicing law is much more than winning a case, Ackerman confronts his students with basic, philosophical questions-e.g., "What is justice?" In his course on social justice-he is now writing a book (his fourth) on the subject-he challenges students to "construct a new political-legal order in which values of individual freedom are synthesized with a richer sense of social justice...
...parents had suggested a career as a high school teacher-good security for a woman-but Ruth Ginsburg believes that sex barriers are to be toppled. As one of four unpaid general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg argued-and last week won-her fourth major Supreme Court women's rights case, promising equal benefits for widows and widowers under Social Security. Her successful strategy: "To attack the most pervasive stereotype in the law-that men are independent and women are men's dependents." Ginsburg encourages her students to join in preparing her cases. Such experience...
When Tribe was all of 20, he was studying the mysteries of algebraic topology, but he found that "a bit lonely," so he turned to law, joining the faculty at the age of 26. Now finishing his fourth book, a major analysis of U.S. constitutional law, Tribe has also advised politicians and institutions on such varied issues as the right to die and whether Massachusetts should require deposits on soft-drink bottles. Tribe is celebrated among students for his knack in jazzing up constitutional issues (he recently had them argue whether the President could be impeached for an armed intervention...