Word: third
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...company to welsh on seniority requirements for promotion, agreements that had been spelled out in union contracts. The unions' main target was the threat to their seniority preference plans, not other elements of affirmative action. Their claim was rejected in the spring of 1977 by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court last week refused to review that decision...
...huge trade deficit and insistent that West Germany and Japan stimulate their domestic economies to help world recovery. In another corner, Europe, led by West Germany, and adamant that the U.S. cut its oil imports to straighten out its trade imbalance and firm up the dollar. In the third corner will be Japan, embarrassed by a massive trade surplus with both the U.S. and Europe and pleading for more time to cut it back by stimulating demand at home...
Pertini had been among the early favorites soon after the electors gathered to choose a successor to Giovanni Leone, who abruptly resigned last month in a cloud of scandal over alleged tax evasion and financial improprieties. Pertini's Socialist Party, the country's third largest, had aggressively sought the presidency from the start, as a sign that it was not about to be submerged by the growing accord of Italy's two dominant parties, the Christian Democrats and Communists...
...based on oil. Tucked between the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, the sultanate sits on an estimated 1.6 billion bbl. of petroleum. The government owns a 50% share in a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, whose wells pump 230,000 bbl. per day; it is also one-third owner of the world's largest natural gas liquefaction plant. Brunei's revenues should surpass $1 billion this year, and the national surplus, already $2.5 billion, will grow by another $700 million...
MARRIED. Tammy Wynette, 36, heartbreak queen of country-and-western music; and George Richey, 42, her business manager and constant traveling companion; she for the fifth time, he for the third; on the beach behind her Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony, Fla., home...