Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third day of the invasion, it was falsely reported that the Chinese forces were already preparing to pull back...
...giants will be hard to beat, despite their current woes from Washington. Says Jouppi: "GM and Ford will pretty much determine what the cars of the future will be. There just isn't anyone around who can compete effectively. Between them they will divide up two-thirds of the world market and leave the remaining third for the rest." In the meantime, ready or not, the auto-buying public can sit back and enjoy one of the most tumultuous periods of change since the car replaced the horse...
...Psychiatrists long ago decided to bill all patients, including fellow doctors. Hospitals too have largely given up the practice of free care, as have many surgeons, especially since most doctors have health insurance to cover the bills. Thus, as Boston Pediatric Radiologist John Leonidas points out, "with all these third-party payers, professional courtesy is ultimately going to be obsolete anyway...
Sometimes the game has inspired an author's best work. In Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly, the relentless, impersonal demands of a tight pennant race counterbalance the emotions stirred by a third-string catcher's lingering, fatal illness...
...THIRD WORLD WAR: AUGUST 1985 by General Sir John Hackett and othertop-ranking NATO generals and advisers Macmillan; 368 pages...