Word: fourth
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...care reform and alternative energy - will be pulverized and reshaped by the Senate. The end products may be unsightly and counterproductive, if passed. A third initiative - a relatively modest regulatory reform of the financial system - is being chewed to dust by the termite lobbyists of the banking industry. A fourth initiative - the effort to buy off the banking system's "toxic" assets - is languishing, near comatose, because of the bankers' intransigence. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...just jailed for corruption. Two of the vice-presidential nominees had been accused of directing human-rights abuses during their military careers. Yet the election that took place in Indonesia on July 8 was, in fact, testament to the remarkable political experiment unfolding in the world's fourth most populous nation...
...someday throw the fastest fastball ever pitched. But this is even more cause for concern: Pitchers, especially young ones, can abuse their (developing) bodies by throwing unnaturally hard. Of the four pitchers who have been recorded at 103 miles per hour, three have had career-altering injuries. The fourth is Stephen Strasburg. There’s no question that the wunderkind is talented today—but such extreme talent at such a young age should be considered a red flag, not a boon...
...Proposal, $12.8 million; $94.2 million, third week 5. The Hangover, $10.4 million; $204 million, fifth week 6. Up, $6.6 million; $264.9 million, sixth week 7. My Sister's Keeper, $5.3 million; $26 million, second week 8. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, $2.5 million; $58.4 million, fourth week 9 (tie). Year One, $2.1 million; $38.1 million, third week 9 (tie). Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $2.1 million; $167.8 million, seventh week...
Though older now, and a bit infirm, and increasingly consumed with thoughts of passing on to his youngest son the family business (running North Korea into the ground), Kim Jong Il still has a fondness for a decent Fourth of July fireworks show. Pyongyang shot at least seven short-range SCUD missiles in the direction of the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning, in what some analysts termed an act of "defiance" against the United States and its allies in east Asia. But the SCUDS, fired from the eastern coast of North Korea, have limited range, and fell harmlessly into...