Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced the playoff by winning their last eight regular-season games, refused to die easily, striking for two runs in the eighth and putting men on first and third in the ninth...
Rich "The Goose" Gossage and his fine-feathered New York Yankee friends soared over Doug Bird and his flock of Kansas City Royals, 6-5, in the third game of the American League Championship Series yesterday at Yankee Stadium...
...outdone, Brett homered again in the third; but the Bronx Bombers came back in the fourth when captain Thurmon Munson doubled, then came home on a Reggie Jackson single. Lou Piniella followed with a single and Jackson made it home on Royal Fred Patek's throwing error...
...Dodgers scored in the second when Ron Cey came home on a double by Bill Russell. They rallied in the third for three runs when Reggie Smith, Steve Garvey and Cey connected on back to back hits. Garvey scored once in the eighth, slugging his third homer of the playoffs...
...theory, Alperovitz believes government budget deficits have had little to do with the inflation of the past six years. The four necessities--food, housing, energy, and health care--account for over 80 per cent of inflation, he maintains. In health care, for instance, there is no check on greed--third parties, the insurance companies, pay for most treatment, and doctors and hospitals charge whatever the "market" will bear. The result: spiraling insurance premiums and profits, soaring medical costs, and inflation. The only possible solution is national health insurance, to remove the profit motive, to ensure adequate medical care...