Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Courser has just placed third in the sheep-shearing contest won by rangy Richard Levis of East Kingston. During the contest each sheep is as nervous as a kid getting his first haircut. But shearers imperturbably plunk the animals down on their backsides. Then, clutching a forefoot in one hand and huge barber clippers in the other, they race through the shearing, rolling fleece off the sheep's belly like carpenters planing wood. Afterward, spectators see that careless shearers gouge into the tender skin, leaving traces of blood. "If it looks like Raggedy Ann you know one of these...
...billion, up $17 billion in a single year. HEW has the third largest budget in the world, outranked only by those of the U.S. Government and the Soviet Union. Its spending roughly equals that of all 50 states combined. The department goes through $500 million every day. By comparison, the Pentagon is a piker's operation (1979 budget: $118 billion). That fact alone indicates how American priorities have changed...
...University of Lausanne. He commands a ragtag army of 5,000 regulars and 12,000 auxiliary bushfighters that includes women and boys barely in their teens. Supported by the Ovimbundu tribe, which makes up about 40% of Angola's population of 6.2 million, Savimbi's forces now control a third of the country. They have gained an advantage by staging successful hit-and-run raids, involving small commando groups of 25 men, to keep government forces off guard...
...Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago plans to withdraw its subsidy this month. The archdiocese kept Providence-St. Mel going during a period of wrenching change in the late '60s and early '70s, when the school went from 50% white to all black, and enrollment (now 340) fell by two-thirds. More students are applying now, but the church says it cannot continue its $150,000 annual subsidy, which covers a third of the school's budget (the rest comes from tuition and assorted fund-raising ventures). The cost per pupil runs $1,300 a year, compared with a $900 average...
McCullough says Mather House was faced with a real problem in past years when there was a 12-choice lottery system. At that time, Mather "was not a top choice. Perhaps with the new system, more people will put Mather down as third choice in hopes of staying at the river," McCullough speculates...