Word: ninth
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...population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed the Maryland Functional Test in mathematics, which measures only the most basic skills; in Baltimore County, 85% passed...
...Cleveland receives a brutal ninth-inning education (TIME Daily...
Harvard men's cross country placed ninth in Friday's five-mile New England championship meet. Caught in a bottle-neck at the start of the race, the men had a slow first mile and couldn't make up the time...
...like smash-mouthed, high-action football, Saturday did not disappoint. As a team, the ninth-rated Crimson offense churned out 623 yards and 33 first downs Saturday, both all-time Harvard records...
Rags-to-riches stories don't come any better than Robert Johnson's. The ninth of 10 children, he grew up poor in Freeport, Ill., earned a place at Princeton and worked as a cable-industry lobbyist. He founded BET in 1980 with $15,000 in borrowed money, convinced he could mine gold from ore that others had found less rich. Marketers have known forever that black consumers have a ton of money at their disposal--$425 billion annually--and are quality conscious and extremely brand loyal. Johnson not only created a brand, BET (Black Entertainment Television...