Word: third
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend and spend and spend for health care--$550 billion in 1988, comprising 11.5 percent of our GNP. Yet America's infant mortality rate ranks 18th among industrialized nations. The rate of Black infant mortality is twice that of whites and is comparable to rates in many Third World nations...
...find their way onto the Medicaid rolls, they must locate physicians willing to deliver care to Medicaid patients. But partly because of huge medical school debts and tremendous malpractice premiums, more than half of American obstetricians cannot afford to provide prenatal care at Medicaid rates. As a result, one-third of low-income women who received inadequate prenatal care last year attributed this failure to their inability to locate a health care provider, according to a study done by the General Accounting Office...
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other top officials rushed to the scene. It was the third serious train accident in the Soviet Union in a year...
...graphic film of bloody and blackened faces of victims flashed on the screen, the correspondent said many of the injured suffered second and third-degree burns, some over 80 percent of their bodies...
Something similar might be said of Hollywood this summer -- the so-called summer of the sequels. Between now and August, moviegoers will be offered up seconds of Ghostbusters and Lethal Weapon, a third Karate Kid, fifths of Star Trek and A Nightmare on Elm Street, an eighth Friday the 13th and, for the 17th time around, James Bond, in Licensed to Kill...