Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Northeastern, the only crew to beat Harvard this season, finished third in the time of 5:39.61 and the Quakers, who also faded in the Eastern Sprints earlier this year, pulled in fourth in 5:39.81. Wisconsin (5:42.47) and UCLA (5:43.35) finished fifth and sixth, respectively...
While the bailout plan may reassure S & L depositors, the tough capital requirements will spell trouble for many marginal thrifts. James Barth, chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, estimates that 674 thrifts, or almost one-fourth of all federally insured U.S. savings institutions, would fail to meet the new capital standards. As a result, many thrifts would be forced to liquidate or combine with healthier institutions...
...only feature film, Looking for Love, bombed, as did a chain of fast-food restaurants that bore his name. He switched coasts, married sometime model Joanna Holland and took a mistress, Mary Jane (Emm-Jay) Trokel, a TV production assistant. Both relationships ultimately failed. In 1987 Carson acquired his fourth wife, an executive secretary, Alexis Mass. Meanwhile, Leamer asserts, all three of his sons became dependent on their father for jobs and income...
...that minor eruption paled next to the outburst of violence in Uzbekistan, the fourth largest republic, located in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. The worst outbreak of ethnic mayhem in the modern Soviet era began on the night of June 3, in the city of Fergana (pop. 190,000), 150 miles southeast of Tashkent, as bands of native Uzbeks staged a series of brutal attacks on minority Meskhetian Turks, who were deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin. Most of the 190,000 displaced Meskhetians settled in Uzbekistan, a region that did not always welcome their presence...
...upheaval began two weeks ago, with isolated outbreaks of looting in several provincial capitals. Widespread food riots broke out in Rosario (pop. 957,000) early last week, after lame-duck President Raul Alfonsin announced his fourth emergency economic plan of the year. Roving crowds, described by police as a mixture of the hungry, the criminal and the opportunistic, overwhelmed poorly prepared local police. Stores not gutted by looters closed their doors, creating widespread food shortages. The unrest then spread to the volatile working-class suburbs of Buenos Aires...