Word: third
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...Because Nestles is a foreign-based company, it is not possible for Americans to force change by using shareholder resolutions or similar efforts, which might produce desirable alterations in the practices of U.S.-based corporations. Nestles is by far the largest of the sellers of manufactured infant formula to Third World countries, and currently has over one-third of the market. Evidence is clear that the Nestles boycott is worrying the company, and is beginning to result in policy changes. It is also obvious that Nestles is spending large sums to discredit those supporting the boycott...
Widespread support of the boycott would provide clear evidence of concern for the health of infants in the Third World--and it would be such a blow to Nestles that it may well persuade them to adopt the changes we seek. I am convinced that such support for the boycott will help to save the lives of innocent victims of bottle feeding in many countries...
...Nestles states that "the preponderance of available evidence points to a mother's need, or desire, to work as the principal reason for the breast feeding decline." My review of studies from Third World countries and my own work suggests this is not the case. An analysis of recently published studies from five countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean suggests that no more than 6 per cent of mothers in any country said they gave up breast feeding in order to work...
...mattress continued to smoulder inside despite several attempts to douse the fire with water, and the fire extinguishers on the first and second floors refused to work for the students. "Then I ran up to the third floor and found the nozzle of the fire extinguisher there covered with masking tape," Baird said...
...contest came down to the last five minutes in the city that gave Spiro Agnew his political start and was decided by a Jones to Roger Carr aerial, Jones' third touchdown pass and Carr's second touchdown catch of the evening. Jones lofted the ball 30 yards in the air to Carr who gathered it in at the five-yard line before tiptoeing inside the flag at the right corner of the end-zone...