Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match, if it proceeds as planned, will be Christina's third. Her previous ventures in love have been disasters. Her first important romance was with Peter Goulandris, heir to another Greek shipping fortune, but the couple were so incompatible that they never got as far as the altar. That over, she married, at 20, a Los Angeles real estate broker more than twice her age named Joseph Bolker. Nine months later, they divorced. Four months after her father's death, in 1975, she married Alexander Andreadis, scion of an Athens business family. "It is like being made a king...
There are many unedifying quarrels among them all, and gradually we learn that one daughter is miserable because Daddy didn't love her, another because Mommy failed her, while the third was left out by both. If the movie has any merit, it is in its middle passage, where we see how, as adults, the three young women still seek compensation for the parental debts left over from childhood. But good performances by these actresses can not really compensate for the desperate sobriety of the film, which robs it of energy and passion, so that it seems to congeal...
...from the moment that inflation once again hit double digits in April, the Administration has been blaming the rise on food prices and promising that the climb would soon abate. Some food prices have begun to subside, though the Labor Department's June inflation rate showed that for the third month in a row prices rose at an annual rate of 11.4%. Productivity figures were also released, and they revealed an all-but-invisible increase of 1/10% from April through June. Even though the Administration still forecasts about a 3.5% to 4% increase in the U.S.'s G.N.P. over...
Lyle Gramley, a member of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers, says: "I still think we'll see a strong third quarter, but inflation is the key to future consumer action. If inflation shows signs of tapering, as we are expecting, then consumer purchases should stay up." Adds a prominent Government economist: "We won't really know what is happening until Christmas. My real fear is that the consumer just can't handle 7% to 8% inflation...
Martin's weepy departure was the result of the latest and most savage round of acrimony. It began two weeks ago when Jackson committed the cardinal baseball sin of insubordination, twice ignoring Martin's signal to swing away. He bunted foul on the third strike for an automatic out. That did it. Martin's hair-trigger nerves were already frayed and his health deteriorated by pressure and the search for solace in liquor. He paused only long enough to smash a radio and a beer bottle against his office wall, then suspended Jackson indefinitely...