Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz, on his fourth trip to the region this year to promote his peace plan, held two meetings with Shamir in Jerusalem on Sunday in an effort to persuade him to agree to make a commitment to Jordan that Israel will exchange part of the occupied territories for Arab recogniton...
...slight discrepancies that remain between male and female experiences are jarring. The frequent occurence of male-dominated discussion sections, with two female students in a classroom of a dozen men, hardly builds self-esteem. With women holding only 7 percent of the tenured faculty positions and only one-fourth of the junior slots, finding role models isn't easy...
...next week's Moscow summit say no final deal or formal treaty will be signed there. At best, President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will agree to a framework for further negotiations. Their satisfaction, it is said, will have to come from the knowledge that their fourth meeting marks a significant warming trend in Soviet-American relations, as well as a new record for the number of meetings between the heads of their two nations...
...straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained a warrant to search the house, found cocaine and hashish inside, and arrested Greenwood. He protested the original warrantless investigation of his trash bags, claiming it violated the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable searches and seizures. Two California courts agreed with Greenwood, but last week the highest court resoundingly rejected his argument...
That's the magic trick British Author William Boyd has managed in his fourth novel. He tells the life story of a rather prickly film director of genius, one John James Todd, and in doing so describes the making of Todd's silent masterpiece so clearly and vividly that the reader may feel he has seen the nonexistent epic. Titled The Confessions: Part I, it is the first film in a projected trilogy that is to be the realization of Todd's dreams. Imprisoned in Germany during World War I, he read Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, and it took...