Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That old medical-school staple, the nude girlie pictures slipped in among the anatomy slides, is gradually disappearing along with the practice of addressing classes of students as "gentlemen." Says Dr. Helen Shields, a fourth-year resident in gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital: "The locker-room humor that I often heard in medical school back in the late '60s is frowned upon now." Women are entering medicine in greater numbers than most other professions. Last fall nearly one-fourth of the nation's incoming medical students were women, up from 13% in 1972. Increasingly, women...
...board members believe that the long-awaited upturn should begin this summer and accelerate smartly after that. During the fourth quarter, most expect real gross national product-output of goods and services, discounted for inflation-to rise at an annual rate of 6% to 7%. For the whole of 1976, a majority of board members predict that production will increase by 6% or more. Okun believes that real G.N.P. will increase at a hefty 8% rate during the first twelve months of the rebound...
Bruckman and McCall were the midfield mainstays of a lacrosse squad that struggled to a 4-9 final slate. McCall placed third in team scoring with 22 goals and eight assists, while Bruckmann ended up fourth with 20 goals and six assists...
...countries in the world except Abu Dhabi, which has the highest real income per capita, are by definition L.D.C.s.) Now, as the number of countries on earth has kept increasing and as the disparities in resources become more and more spectacular, people are speaking of a Fourth World, meaning Bangladesh, India, Uganda and many others deep in poverty, lacking sufficient export earnings...
...spending plans caused a fall in orders for steel used in construction. But remarkable as the first-quarter profit gains were, they fell off substantially from late 1974. In the third quarter last year, steel profits rose an average 172% from the equivalent quarter of 1973, and in the fourth quarter 91%. The average gain for this year's first quarter...