Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaigned, Bush stressed his broad experience in government. In Boston, he pursued the youth vote very nearly to the cradle: "I want to restore the stars in third-graders' eyes." But he failed to stir his audiences with speeches that contained more thought than passion and were carefully qualified. Compared with either Connally or Reagan, Bush is unexciting on the stump, a serious handicap for any long shot...
Grantham, a market town of 28,000 in Lincolnshire, has three claims to fame: the 281-ft. spire of St. Wulfram's Church is the third highest in England, Sir Isaac Newton went to school there, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) was born and raised in an apartment over her family's grocery store at the corner of North Parade and Broad streets...
...materials. That is the great significance of Rhodesia and South Africa: we get our vital raw materials from there. We're lucky with our oil for the time being. Now there is that colossal outflanking movement right across the oil countries, across the Horn of Africa. The third way is subversion. I often say to some of our African friends, "Don't you ever forget, we were easy to throw out. Don't think the Communists will be if they...
...hard liquor works out to 21 quarts for every man, woman and child; one in ten deaths is alcohol related, and job absenteeism is endemic. So grave is the situation that the parliament is planning to impose liquor rationing soon. Then there is venereal disease, which afflicts perhaps a third of the adults...
...rich market, Japan's trade surplus continues to pile up. Last year it rose to $24.6 billion, from $17.3 billion in 1977. Imports of Toyotas, Sony TVs, Nikon cameras and other Japanese goods to the U.S. outpaced American exports to Japan by $13 billion, accounting for fully a third of the American trade deficit...