Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems at first to concur. While there is some rose-colored light in the distance--at story's end, one of the women commits her depression to psychiatry, and another accustoms herself to life alone--still, one winds up returning to her stable but dreary domestic existence. And the fourth is dead. The internal clashes, debates, resolutions and decisions have not yielded the dreams of 20 years past, and even the second chance is not enough...
...highlight for Columbia in the opening minutes of the second half was its decision to go for a first down on a fourth-and-one situation from its own 40. The Lions succeeded, but on the very next play, in typical Columbia fashion, running back Bruce "Magic" Stephens lost his touch and fumbled...
...message inside: "Balance your budget. " When new problems developed, the president twice more consulted his silent mentors. "Form a committee," read the second note; "Make a new five-year plan, "said the third. After a period of relative calm, another crisis ensued, and the president, after opening the fourth envelope, slumped in his chair. The suggestion: "Prepare four envelopes...
When this apocryphal tale was told at a recent conference of small college presidents, it was greeted with uneasy laughter. The fourth envelope is often too close at hand. Given the problems in higher education-entrenched faculties, rising expenses, enrollments expected to fall-college presidents can no longer expect long terms of easy-paced stewardship. Indeed their estimated tenure today is three to five years...
Duck Hunting. Jones, beginning his fourth year in the pros, is now a seasoned gridiron thinker, as well as an accurate passer, who was once described as "football's Sandy Koufax." Last year he rated fourth among N.F.L. quarterbacks in total offense, leading the league in quarterback rushing with 321 yds. He completed 59% of his passes, breaking the Colts' record held by Johnny Unitas. Jones, 25, has but one eccentricity: growing a beard during the season-not to shave it off for the cameras a la Namath, but to camouflage his face for duck hunting...