Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole's departure from the race is still troubling, if for no other reason than because she made her decision before a single vote was cast. She is the fourth Republican candidate, after John Kasich, Dan Quayle and Lamar Alexander, to leave the race so early. Realizing they would have trouble getting their message out to voters, all cited Bush's mound of cash as one reason they quit the race...
...then in the fourth quarter, the Bear defense finally stepped up, stopping the Quakers on consecutive drives...
That's bad news in an industry that relies on hits to get kids and parents into the stores. This year, for example, Hasbro and retailers were betting on products licensed from Star Wars' prequel Phantom Menace to drive sales into the crucial fourth quarter, which accounts for half of all toy sales. However, the force has not been with the Star Wars line. "It was very strong in May and June, during the movie's release," says Leslie Rauch, a senior buyer for Target stores. "But since then, it's become nothing more than a boy's action figure...
...limits--you'll still need help getting into that casket. Undertakers have tried to recoup dollars lost to cut-rate casket sellers by raising their service fees, up 9.6% over the past two years, to an average of $1,182. These fees account for about a fourth of the typical funeral's cost, which has nearly tripled in the past 20 years...
Jonathan's mom Robin Norice, 38, an IRS tax examiner, has had her son in the program since the fourth grade because, she says, "I want him to have the same educational experience as whites"--one of higher quality than he would get in the inner city. Jonathan's neighborhood friends often taunt him for being too good to simply walk the six blocks to Roosevelt High. But "all they do there is fight every day," he says. "You've got to worry about the gangs and what color you're wearing." He appreciates Webster's relative safety...