Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than it was in the early summer. With gasoline readily available again, buyers have returned to shopping centers and auto showrooms. Reflecting this consumer boomlet, the Commerce Department guesstimates that the economy may have actually grown at an annual rate of 1% in the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, which begins this week, the brief spending splurge is expected to fade, and the pace of business will slow sharply...
This is easily the year's most preposterous movie premise, requiring one to accept many items on faith: that Wells did not merely imagine the Time Machine but actually built it in his basement; that since it operates in the fourth dimension it can be in two different times and places simultaneously so both hero and villain can use it; and, most important, that a film involving history's most notorious sex criminal can turn out to be an entertainment of considerable wit, charm and, of all things, romantic sweetness...
...ciel is one of the biggest climaxes in a score that sometimes seems to be nothing but climaxes. But Verdi and Librettist Arrigo Boito knew that after the massive choral scene in Act III, enough was enough. Hence the rightness of the subdued, wistfully melancholy fourth act, a sort of spacious postlude. This act is Desdemona's great moment. Soprano Gilda Cruz-Romo made the most of it, although in the earlier acts her singing had somewhat lacked color and shading. Poignant and dignified, she spun out the Willow Song and Desdemona's final prayer in long, crystalline...
Baltimore took the lead in the fourth when they scored without the benefit of a hit. Meanwhile, Oriole starter Jim Palmer settled down and was holding the Angels in check...
...Nonverbal Communication," which ranked fourth last year, lost one lecturer, Laurence Wylie, Dillon Professor of Civilization of France, to retirement. Top Ten Courses 1. Social Analysis 10 1,053 2. Nat Sci 110 717 3. Astro 8 481 4. Chem 20a 385 5. Math 1a 384 6. Soc Sci 33 380 7. Fine Arts 13 371 8. Nat Sci 3 360 9. Music...