Word: sixths
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...decade later, the prophet stands at the sixth-floor balcony outside his office at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (A.C.O.G.), surveying his sweltering promised land. To the north lie the new Olympic Village dorms and the aquatic center; right below him to the west is Centennial Olympic Park, swarming with scores of road-paving, tent-erecting workers frantically engaged in the last-second realization of his vision...
Still, Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, which cuts across some of Atlanta's most affluent suburbs, is not exactly Democratic territory. It is one of the wealthiest congressional districts in the country (its $47,000 median household income ranks 23rd of 435 districts) and strongly Republican (56% of voters in the Sixth backed George Bush in 1992). But centrist Democrats like Georgia Governor Zell Miller and Senator Sam Nunn have also run strongly in the Sixth, and Democrats insist that Gingrich's abrasive personality is turning off voters across the board. Says Steve Anthony, executive director of the Democratic Party...
...sixth year in a row, Harvard posted a record number of applicants. At 18,190, the total number of applicants increased by 1 percent from...
...used to play basketball, but we're all centers. You'd get seven people in the middle with their hands up, elbowing each other in the head." During a race, at least, their 105-lb. cox Yaz, who also coxed the team at the '92 Olympics, when they took sixth, is left to sort through the egos as best she can, barking into her headset commands that the rowers receive via speakers mounted inside the boat, to the profound annoyance of the women wielding the oars. "I have to pace them, to see if they can handle it," says Farooq...
...there is no excuse for the nation's sixth-largest city not to have an orchestra. Someone should have stepped...