Word: tenth
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Ironically, one question of British policy in which Mountbatten had never played a role was that of Northern Ireland. Yet his death, following hard on the tenth anniversary of Britain's dispatch of troops to the province, inevitably threw into grave relief the unremitting tragedy of Britain's most enduring dilemma. Simply because of his stature, Mountbatten had been considered an obvious if illogical target for the I.R.A. Mullaghmore is only twelve miles from Northern Ireland, near an area known as a refuge for Provos fleeing across the border. Thus local police kept watch on the castle...
...pays-$30 a day plus some extras-will opt out. That leaves, says Stanford Law School Professor William Baxter, juries of "the old, the jobless and the poor." At the 14-month trial of SCM vs. Xerox, a $1.5 billion antitrust suit, the jurors' average education level was tenth grade...
Supporters of aid argue with passion that the U.S. cannot afford the failure of a company that is the nation's tenth largest manufacturer, its biggest builder of military tanks and one of only three major domestic competitors in its supremely important automotive industry. A Congressional Budget Office study concluded last week that a complete Chrysler shutdown would cost 360,000 workers their jobs immediately, and that ripple effects throughout the economy could throw an equal number out of work...
...tenth movie, Die Laughing, Robby Benson, 23, is practically the entire show. He stars, wrote the script with his father Jerry Segal, and composed five songs for the score. Benson plays a cabbie trapped in an espionage plot who is lucky enough to have Elsa Lanchester, 76, as a sort of guardian angel. Her explanation of her role is vintage Lanchester: "You see, I have to go up into the California vineyards in an effort to help Robby, who's been caught by alien agents because his monkey that I'm taking care of has the secret...
...haven, an unrelenting series of academic challenges enlivened by warm friendships with students and teachers. I didn't think I had swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence is not confined to prep schools. I had always hated the socialite, tennis-playing atmosphere of my suburban town, and I fled to prep school as a more, not less, diverse place...