Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projects, a deserted Chinese restaurant and the shambles of Chinese-Albanian friendship, which Chairman Mao described only two years ago as "inexhaustible and truly invincible." The origins of the quarrel lie in Albania's hostility to China's policy of rapprochement with the U.S. and the Third World and to Peking's warming relations with Albania's longtime enemy, Yugoslavia. Instead of attempting to patch up the quarrel, Peking apparently decided it was time to end the Albanian drain on China's resources-more than $4 billion since 1954. According to the official Chinese news...
...worst violator of human rights in the world today. And, true, members of the U.S. Congress have ringingly denounced the Cambodian holocaust. The U.N., ever quick to adopt a resolution condemning Israel or South Africa, acted with its customary tortoise-like caution when dealing with a Third World horror: it wrote a letter to Phnom Penh asking for an explanation of charges against the regime...
...country are sitting down and discussing the great issues of the day and that they have something in common when they don't?" The auto worker boss also declared that labor has become so disenchanted with the Democratic Party that there is talk of bolting and forming a third party...
...baby is born normal and healthy, they pointed out, it will give new hope to women who have been unable to conceive be cause of tubal difficulties. In the U.S. alone, as many as 10% of all married women who want to bear children cannot. Possibly a third of these are infertile because of blocked tubes that cannot be surgically repaired...
...will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation. As Dr. Albert Decker of the New York Fertility Research Foundation puts it, "Pregnancy is not simple. Women do not get pregnant at the drop...