Word: third
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though government aid accounts for only 2% of the underdeveloped world's income, its influence is often decisive. Aid finances perhaps 10% of the total investment in third-world countries; in countries such as Pakistan, Jordan, Korea, India and Tunisia, it provides as much as half...
...depending on the audience and the need for additions to the military budget: "We are losing the war in Viet Nam." If the briefer is in the Air Force, he makes three points-no more, no less. If he has only two, then he must contrive a third...
...been a rather shaking night," the soprano quipped after singing the third act of La Bohème under somewhat unusual circumstances. First there was that rumbling noise backstage at the San Francisco Opera House. "I looked around, thinking maybe they had turned on the wind machine," Dorothy Kirsten recalled. "I was sort of dizzy and the floor was shaking. I was so engrossed, I didn't know what was happening." What was happening was a strong earthquake-5.6 on the Richter scale-the bay area's biggest jolt in twelve years. A few of the less courageous...
...their life styles, many of the freshmen emulate hippie attitudes. More than a fifth have tried pot, and more than half believe that it should be legal. A third said that they would like to try living in a commune. Both premarital sex and legalized abortion were approved by large majorities, including most of the freshmen interviewed at Roman Catholic Notre Dame...
Approximately one-third of the medical college's faculty of 359 members are regularly active in the consulting service. These medical experts are on call for periods ranging from one week to a month at a time. Their specialties cover almost a dozen different areas of medicine, including surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, infectious diseases, toxicology, endocrinology, neurology and nutrition. Advice in allied health fields, such as hospital administration, pharmacology and dietary service, is also available...