Word: tenth
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More than foul weather is behind the slump. Experts on the Soviet economy point out that it has been slowing down for several years. Since 1976, which marked the start of the tenth Five Year Plan, annual growth has averaged 3.9% a year; in the first years of the decade, the average was 6%. The country now faces a serious labor shortage in industrialized areas, productivity has been sagging, and Soviet planners have yet to cope with serious management problems. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Soviets...
...confident of leaving behind an institution that can flourish without him. Last season, the orchestra's tenth, it performed before a total of 100,000 people. Besides occasional national tours and State Department-sponsored appearances abroad, it visits campuses and towns throughout the region as a sort of floating miniconservatory, offering clinics, master classes and discussion groups in addition to its concerts. In its main subscription series at St. Paul's 1,700-seat O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, the orchestra has become all but a sellout, precisely by avoiding safe subscription fare. "A concert hall doesn...
Formal schooling ended for Smith at the tenth grade. Then, through more than 20 years of self-education and training programs, he learned to master topics like atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island?but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...
Many students, beseiged by literature in recent weeks that has marked the tenth anniversary of the Harvard strike, have in fact been surprised to learn that the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Studies Department has been one major demand of striking Harvard students in 1969. More surprising than the subsequent granting of the demand is that, after ten years, the department has come full circle: a visiting committee is at present judging its viability as a department, and presenting recommendations on the status of the department to the Board of Overseers...
...Crusaders touched up Steward for a single run in the ninth, and then came the tragic tenth...