Word: sixths
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...Pelham 1 2 3, $25 million, first week 4. Night at the Museum: Battles of the Smithsonian, $ 9.6 million; $143.4 million, fourth week 5. Land of the Lost, $ 9.2 million; $35 million, second week 6. Imagine That, $ 5.7 million, first weekend 7. Star Trek, $ 5.6 million; $232 million, sixth week 8. Terminator Salvation, $ 4.7 million; $113.8 million, fourth week 9. Angels & Demons, $ 4.2 million; $123.3 million, fifth week 10. Drag Me To Hell, $ 3.9 million; $35.1 million, third week...
...ignore the results of a promotion test after there were no black firefighters among the top scorers. One of 20 white firefighters who brought the case, Frank Ricci, is dyslexic and paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 to read study guides for the test onto audiotapes. Ricci scored sixth out of 77 - high enough to merit the promotion. But the city, fearing that it could be sued for discrimination, decided to promote...
When the Swiss tennis star Roger Federer won the French Open on June 7, he tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles and become only the sixth player in history to win all four Grand Slam events (the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens). In the GOAT Debate - Greatest of All Time - Federer now has only one rival: Rod Laver, the Australian star who not only won all four Slams, but twice did so in a calendar year (in 1962 and 1969). Laver's total of 11 Grand Slam titles could have been higher...
...Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ’81, and the Smithsonian’s Director of the Museum of Natural History Cristián Samper won six-year terms in an alumni vote to serve on the 30-member board.Former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Joshua S. Boger, who received the sixth most votes, will serve the remaining three-year term vacated by Arne S. Duncan ’86, who left to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education...
...Over a million people, about one-sixth of the colony's population, took to the streets hours after the crackdown. They shouted "Down with Li Peng," naming China's then Premier as responsible for the killings. Entire buildings were draped in black flags. Office workers were given lists of random fax numbers in China and asked to transmit newspaper clippings of events, news of Tiananmen having been suppressed in China itself. Slow-driving protest convoys of motor vehicles took to the streets at night. Wild rumors flew around - one held that Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a student sympathizer...