Word: fourth
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...survey of 1,057 randomly selected businesses nationwide was conducted by SSRS/ICR—an independent research company. It was the fourth in an ongoing series of inquiries into the effects of H1N1 flu in America and was the first of those to focus on the flu’s potential impact on businesses...
...Parise, who has been the Pudding’s professional director since 1996, to identify those characters who would survive to be in the production. They then held a marathon meeting early in the fall to conceive the entire plot and structure. Now the two are working on their fourth draft.“Over J-term, writing will really kick into high gear,” Amram says. “That’s when rehearsals start. It’s a totally delirious time, and we’re changing it up until, like...
...Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision-making...
...economic policy. If Merkel manages to form her preferred coalition with the FDP, the new government would be less likely than the current grand coalition to intervene to bolster big industry, choosing to stimulate the economy instead with tax cuts and investment incentives. As Germany is the world's fourth largest economy and second biggest exporter, its economic management is of global concern. And with little change expected to Germany's foreign policy, the rest of the world will likely pay closer attention to possible shifts in the economic and finance ministries than those at the very top of government...
...daily driver is a bad idea from a reliability standpoint, or why power-to-weight ratio is way more important than raw horsepower, or why…sorry, am I boring you? I’ll stop now. My obsession started early. I subscribed to Car and Driver in fourth grade. I was crushed when my mom made it clear to me that I wouldn’t be getting my license at 16 and three months like the law allowed. More recently, I have swapped a new engine into my 1992 Infiniti G20 two times—once because...