Word: third
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Administrators have established a policy of prohibiting Harvard and Radcliffe from spending more than one-third of their total work-study grants in the summer. The new policy has meant that fewer students than last year could get work-study funds this summer, but the number of students who would have to be denied funds was not as great as had been expected. Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, says only a few men and women were turned down for summer funding; 160 men and 60 women will take work-study jobs...
...consider a strategy for getting into a House they like, or staying out of a House they dislike. The lottery application process became reminiscent of the college application process. "Safety Houses," ones which students felt lacked popularity, but which they wouldn't terribly mind living in, were often ranked third...
...attracting mostly first-time visitors from overseas, but if the nation wants to lure them back for second or third trips, it must improve and expand services. Only a few major cities have well-staffed visitor services that can help non-English-speaking tourists find their way about or locate a doctor on short notice. In hotels, restaurants and stores, it often seems that any language is spoken -just so it is English. Any money will be changed-so long as it is the U.S. dollar...
MARRIED. Michelle Phillips, 33, lissome blonde Hollywood actress (Valentino) who was a singer with the 1960s' Mamas and Papas folk-rock group; and Robert Stephen Birch, 30, a broadcasting executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills...
...universal submission and total surrender to their situation as slaves." But writing from Vermont, where he now lives, Solzhenitsyn prefaces the English translation of Gulag III by saying: "To those readers who have found the moral strength to overcome the darkness and suffering of the first two volumes, the third volume will disclose a space ol freedom and struggle...