Word: third
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...Faculty member, who wished to remain anonymous, estimated after the meeting that one-third of the Faculty members left the meeting before the end of the discussion of teaching quality...
With approximately one-fourth of the class casting ballots, freshmen voted 238 to 154 with 61 abstentions to send representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), making the Class of '82 the third freshman class in a row to break an eight-year boycott of the committee...
...ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
Corporate belt tightening, price increases and the continued buoyancy of the economy all helped to increase profits. Kemble Stokes, a Commerce Department senior economist, adds another, more intriguing reason. During the third quarter, the U.S. managed a jump in nonfarm productivity of 3.7% at an annual rate, compared with a first-quarter decline. The increase was startling because productivity has slipped badly in the U.S. since the mid-1960s, partly as a result of the flow of less skilled people into the labor force and the proliferation of costly government regulations. For the past five years America's rate...
Riccardo says he recruited Iacocca because Chrysler "needed additional firepower." While Ford and General Motors are both enjoying robust sales and profits, Chrysler is in the midst of its worst year since 1975, when it lost $260 million. The company lost $158.5 million in the third quarter alone, and its full-year deficit could reach $250 million. On the plus side, Chrysler in August sold its European automotive assets to France's Peugeot-Citroën in a deal that included $230 million in cash. Riccardo has announced that Peugeot-Citroën coughed up the $230 million this...