Word: fourth
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...year for three years) the oil rights to Saudi Arabia's 50% interest in the Neutral Zone, a barren 2,500 sq. mile tract that the Saudis owned jointly with Kuwait. For three years the Getty leases produced no oil, but in the fourth Getty struck it rich. By 1955, his wells were producing more than 4,000,000 bbls. of oil a year. Today, they are the chief source of oil for Getty's petrochemical complex, which includes the original Getty Oil Company (of which Getty owned 64.8%), the Mission Corp. (88%) and Skelly Oil (owned...
More than a fourth of the 186 teachers at Gallaudet are themselves deaf, and all must learn sign language if they want tenure. A full range of courses is available in the humanities, arts and sciences, and conversational courses in Spanish and French are particularly popular. These courses are taught by either phonic spelling or "cued" speech, a system of hand signals made close to the mouth...
...price doves, Saudi Arabia's Yamani insisted that any price increase now would damage the steadily recovering economies of the U.S. and Western Europe and cause another drop in world oil demand. One reason Yamani succeeded in carrying the day is because Saudi Arabia, which produces about a fourth of all OPEC oil, has the power to break the cartel: no price that it finds intolerable has a chance of sticking...
...more than two years-essentially, since the oil crisis-the Third World has been clamoring for a "new international economic order" in which a greater share of the world's wealth would be directed toward developing countries. Last weekend the fourth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD IV) adjourned after 24 days of intense bargaining in Nairobi between the industrialized north and the poorer south. Though the less developed countries (LDCs) did not by any means win all their demands, delegates hoped that an eleventh-hour compromise would preserve the fragile climate of cooperation that has characterized...
...prime characteristic of the pure mathematician is an inability to speak in language that is intelligible to the layman. It follows that any novelist with a 14-year-old mathematical genius as his hero is probably looking for trouble. Ratner's Star, Author Don DeLillo's fourth book, has just such a hero-Billy Twillig-and its problems begin right there. Although Billy has won the only Nobel Prize ever awarded in his field, neither he nor DeLillo can explain much about the nature of "zorgs," Twillig's epochal discovery. Aside from his ineffable talent, Billy...