Word: third
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the computer's carefully recorded data, Edwards has learned that people on the whole make remarkably rational decisions. Nevertheless, more than a third of the participants become befogged by superstitions, biases and logical incoherences. Most people, for example, regard an event as more likely to occur if they stand to lose by its occurrence rather than gain by it. Also, they tend to inflate the value of the money they stand to win-that is, a $10 bet means more to them emotionally than five $2 bets...
...decade ago. Rumania's industrial pro duction grew 12% in 1968, the great est increase of any country in the Eastern bloc. The expansion was more than twice as rapid as that of Czechoslovakia or Hungary, and it exceeded the U.S.S.R.'s growth rate by one third...
...that 1968 was an awful year in most of Europe. Too much rain and too little sunshine conspired to produce mediocre wines from the vineyards of Burgundy and the Rhine, Rhone and Moselle valleys. Bordeaux was not quite as badly hit, but its vine yards produced only one-third of the normal amount of quality wine. On simplified vintage charts, 1968 will be rated no better than 4 out of a possible...
What tortures a P. H. Newby hero goes through! In real life Newby is the gentlemanly chief of the BBC's gentlemanly Third Programme; in his fiction he is committed to the notion that a novelist's job is to beat the truth out of his characters. With an author like him, a novel has no need of villains...
Statics through eight games show that three Crimson sophomores are most likely to break-up today's pitching duel. Third baseman Dan DeMichele leads the Harvard sluggers with a .519 batting average, while both Pete Bernhard and Pete Varney are hitting over...