Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chugged into its Zambian terminal eleven hours late. We were lucky at that. Freight trains normally require 20 days or more to make the round trip, owing to equipment failures, crashes, derailments and endemic small-scale pilfering. About 30% of the 2,100 freight cars, and up to a third of the locomotives, are out of commission at a time...
...York lost Tom Seaver, Oakland couldn't keep Reggie Jackson, but Cincinnati is determined to hold on to Pete Rose. The Reds' star third baseman is scheduled to become a free agent on Nov. 3. To keep him in town, the city planning commission has drafted an ordinance designating Rose "an historic property." If the city council passes the ruling, there cannot be any "alteration to the exterior appearance of the property," including "the number 14 on the shirt and large lettering on the posterior of the shirt spelling out the word Rose." More important, there...
...farm income is expected to hit $25 billion this year, almost 25% over 1977 and the third highest on record. But the purchasing power of those dollars is no higher than in 1969. Farmers who raise the grain and cattle curse inflation as vehemently as does the shopper grumbling about the price of bread and steak...
Sons of the most successful farmers, naturally enough, see things differently. California's Gary Kitahara, 26, a third-generation Japanese American, studied chemistry, accounting and business administration, and "was never all that excited about farming"?even though his father George, 59, has made enough money growing nectarines, plums, peaches and grapes to buy not one but two airplanes to fly for fun. Says Gary: "I had seen my dad struggle, and there were times that it didn't look real good." But Gary's mind changed rapidly when Dad offered to buy him his own farm and take...
...physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They are afraid, and they couple that with their uncertainty in social terms; half have never dated. Still, many students confide to me that they love it here. They'll say, 'It is the first place I have been where I am not considered a monster...