Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, in fact, hinged upon that relationship. The nine peers, constituting a Committee of Privileges, were to decide whether John or Geoffrey should be honored with the title of fourth Baron Ampthill, a hereditary peerage John is the son of the third Baron Ampthill by his third wife. Geoffrey, who now holds the title, was born during the third baron's marriage to his first wife. The bizarre story behind John's challenge is that Geoffrey's mother was, by her own testimony and expert medical opinion a virgin when Geoffrey was born...
...rule dates back to 1914, when the Supreme Court held that evidence taken illegally from someone cannot be used against him in federal court, otherwise "the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value." In 1961 the court extended the rule to state courts. Whether or not that decision "handcuffed" police, as some loudly complained, it undeniably changed the way local law-enforcement agencies work...
CAPITAL SPENDING. Business outlays for new plant and equipment have been lagging, but they may be about to turn. A new private survey will show that corporate appropriations for capital expenditures rose nearly 20% in last year's fourth quarter...
Last week a beaming Riccardo reported that he had restored some measure of health to the nation's third largest automaker. True enough, the company suffered a record net loss of $259 million for 1975, $27.7 million of it during the fourth quarter. But the last three months were in the red only because Chrysler incurred losses of $62.6 million on the sale of its Airtemp air-conditioner division. For the first time in five quarters, the company earned a profit (of $34.9 million) from its automotive operations. Riccardo predicted a net profit in each quarter...
...middle of the second half, Bill Carey, Muliufi Hanneman, and Doc Hines had all been tagged with their fourth personals...