Word: third
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I shouldn't have seen it coming. I have lost Blankie several times since third grade, when my five-year-old brother--acting in vengeance against something I swear I didn't do--stole my beloved and threw him in the trash...
After two scoreless innings, junior Tom Konjoyan and sophomore Jay Jakimczyk connected for a home run apiece in the third to pull the Crimson within two runs...
Overall, these jurisdictions hope to raise an extra $5.1 billion next year. More than a third of that would be levied in just three Northeastern states -- Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut. The main sources of new revenue are so-called sin taxes on smoking and drinking. Confronting a deficit of as much as $300 million in Massachusetts, Dukakis has proposed tobacco- and alcohol-tax increases as well as a phased 10 cents rise in the gasoline tax, to 21 cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising...
...woes. Drexel Burnham Lambert, the junk-bond pioneer, said last week it plans to sell its retail brokerage business, which trades for small investors, and concentrate on large institutional clients. That move and cutbacks in other divisions will slash Drexel's payroll of 9,000 employees by about one-third. In a candid statement, Drexel said "adverse publicity" about its legal problems had helped drive it from the retail market. Earlier this month the company settled a Securities and Exchange Commission suit by agreeing to fire its indicted junk-bond czar, Michael Milken, and submit to intense Government supervision...
...screen, a swirling storm cloud slowly twists itself into the characteristic funnel shape of a killer tornado. On another, molecules the size of baseballs jostle frantically for position, each seeking out a comfortable docking site on another's surface. On a third screen, a small child in bright white diapers rises on stubby legs and toddles across a room...