Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Easy Way. That unhappy scenario is being played out now. Hit by sharp inflation, recession and unemployment, the real purchasing power of Americans has declined by 5.2% in the past year. Sales volume has fallen, and corporate profits plunged by 21% from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of last year. Manufacturers in the fourth quarter cut their capital-spending appropriations by 24%. Today the nation's factories and machines are operating well below capacity, and productivity during the fourth quarter fell at an annual rate...
...commandos stormed into the hotel with guns blazing, killing the desk clerk and a woman guest on the spot. Going from room to room, they quickly rounded up hostages and took them to the fourth floor. Among them were Kochava Levi, 30, a petite, black-haired prostitute who had ducked into the Savoy earlier to avoid a police roundup, and Avrahim Azikri, 28, an interior decorator and a guest in the hotel. "They told us if we behaved, everything would be okay," Azikri recalled later. "But when I heard the Israeli troops starting their attack, I thought it was every...
Jiggetts, although failing to qualify for the finals, made "startling progress this year," according to McCurdy. His best throw this season, over 61 feet, ranks fourth in the Harvard record book...
...bolted door again in 1974, after that year's Class Committee decided that Alexander Solzhenitsya was an infessible choice and I.F. Stone decided he would rather go sailing. Stone also said he was probably "too anti-Establishment for Harvard"--a problem that did not trouble the People's Fourth Choice, Richardson. Still soggy from his bold and anguished desertion of the sinking ship of the Nixon administration, Richardson scarcely alluded to his political prospects or career: the modest former secretary of defense omitted mention even of his command over the last year of the American bombing of Cambodia. Instead...
Griffin received honorable mention for his direction of the Harvard attack in the second half of the season. He averaged 4.3 assists per game, good for fourth in the Ivies. Carey also had a strong second half as he surged to finish as the Crimson's most accurate shooter from the field...