Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that last week's election results could not be simplistically interpreted as a rejection of Francophone rights and ambitions. Another is that Levesque's Parti Québecois government, after 2½ mixed years in office, seems to be losing credibility with the voters. A third is that no more than 20% of Quebeckers favor outright independence for the province...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had already decided to send three new emissaries to southern Africa. One will concentrate on the problem of Namibia (South West Africa), another will be dispatched to a number of African capitals to discuss the Rhodesian question. The third, Assistant Under Secretary Derek Day, will go to Salisbury in an effort, as Lord Carrington put it, to develop "the closest possible contacts with Bishop Muzorewa and his colleagues." This fact-finding mission will probably last until after the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, in early August, thereby relieving the Thatcher government...
...total election-year tax cut is expected to be $15 billion or more, and it is traditionally split two-thirds for individuals, one-third for business. Conable, Jones and other congressional leaders have been telling business people to rally behind a single proposal to avoid a repetition of last year's squabble, when big companies preferred a corporate tax cut rather than a reduction in capital gains taxes. The plan for faster depreciation has quickly won the backing of business lobbyists, who get together for breakfast every two weeks at Washington's sedate Sheraton-Carlton...
...sulfurous streets were unsafe," he writes. "Pointless, profitless muggings were commonplace; joyless rape that punished its victims and offered no relief to the perpetrator. Everything was contagious, cancer as common as a cold, plague the quotidian. There was stomachache, headache, toothache, earache. There was angina and indigestion and painful third-degree burning itch. Nerves like a hideous body hair grew long enough to trip over and lay raw and exposed as live wires or shoelaces that had come undone...
...hospitals or clinics, where nurses, lab technicians, therapists, pharmacists and other functionaries join with doctors in building mountains of medical information about the patient. To complicate matters, the patient does not pick up the hospital tab directly. That is done by insurance companies or government agencies, so-called third parties, all of whom claim a legitimate right to look into what they are paying...