Word: fourth
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There he confronts the sourest and most apprehensive national mood to hang over a Fourth of July holiday in years. For millions of citizens penned at home by exasperating gasoline shortages, the only celebration will be a backyard barbecue?if the sporadic strikes by independent truckers protesting the scarcity and soaring price of diesel fuel do not cause new shortages at the supermarkets. Gas lines in Eastern cities are getting longer, despite the spread of odd-even sales restrictions, and the Tokyo agreement to limit petroleum imports obviously will do nothing to shorten them, since it is a scarcity...
...fourth of them were limiting purchases, and 18% reported being out of one grade of gas, most often unleaded...
That was bad enough, but conservatives also feared that questions about things like Adam and Eve would lead to loss of faith in biblical accounts of Jesus Christ. One author cites a 1976 survey at the seminary in Louisville in which nearly one-fourth of the students polled thought it was probably or definitely not true that Jesus walked on water or was virgin-born...
Ishikawa, who completed his doctorate in French last spring, is returning to Harvard for his fourth year. He served as a proctor his first two years. Last year he also planned to serve as a proctor, but received an unexpected promotion when the person originally appointed to the deanship abruptly resigned last May. Pihl offered Ishikawa...
This summer marks the fourth year the school has recruited secondary school students, a move taken to offset a decline in enrollment dating back to the early '70s. Michael Shinagel, director of the Summer School, said he expects over 550 secondary school students to attend the school this summer. By far the largest groups of students come from New York, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, but the group includes eight students from Iran, as well as students from Japan, Nicaragua, Greece, Italy, Korea, China, Taiwan, France, Venezuela, Canada and other countries...