Word: third
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Harvard had an 8-2 lead by the end of the first quarter, as the Eagles' haphazard offense and horror-show defense virtually handed the game to the Crimson. It was the 15-4 at halftime, 21-4 in a scoreless third quarter for B.C., and then two fourth-quarter goals by the Crimson's Mike Ward rounded things...
Yesterday's hour-and-a-half-long meeting was perfunctory, reflecting Rosovsky's desire that the Faculty finish the Core debate before the end of the academic year. The meeting was the third since the Faculty took up the Core plan in March...
...Crimson led, 4-3, as the match went down to the last two doubles contests. With the third doubles locked up in a neck-and-neck third set, the second doubles match entered a third-set tiebreacker...
...This is simply untrue. As the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a Washington-based group that examines ethical implications of corporate investment, points out, U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa provide important strategic inputs to the South African government--for instance, they supply almost half the market for computers; a third of the country's motor vehicles; and over two-fifths of its petroleum. In these sectors and others, U.S. companies provide important military inputs and form the basis for much of the white-controlled apartheid economy. The companies provide crucial contacts with world markets, needed foreign exchange, tax revenue...
...fact, in most cases, foreign firms cannot supply the technologies now made available to the apartheid regime by U.S. multinationals. Where alternative technologies are available they are often more expensive. Similarly, U.S. banks--suppliers of fully one-third of South African credit needs--cannot be replaced, except at prohibitively high interest rates. In any case, it would be difficult for the regime to continue to arm the military at the same high rate it has recently...