Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joyner was the guest host of the fourth-annual Harvard Cultural Rhythms show. She was down to earth and a pleasure to meet. She hasn't become overwhelmed by the publicity and attention that surrounds...
...weeks ago I underwent, for the fourth time, that most charming of Harvard's freshman initiation rituals, the computer portion of the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement...
...shock. I was determined not to fail the QRR for the fourth time, not when I was so close to victory...
These gains in rote learning are offset by a worrisome inability to reason effectively. More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...
...everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified for more than five weeks. It bore stab wounds in the throat. Meanwhile, a football-team member, Maxwell Madondo, 19, was found hacked to death in Soweto...