Word: third
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Operaphiles may agree on little else, but on one subject they are unanimous: Charles Garnier's Paris Opera, conceived in a burst of Second Empire glory and opened in a blaze of Third Republic splendor, is the world's most opulent opera house. The Paris Opera (Vendome; 187 pages; $75), with text by Martine Kahane, curator of the Opera's library-museum, and musicologist Thierry Beauvert, succinctly recounts the history of the fabled hall, but the real tour d'horizon is provided by Jacques Moatti's photographs, which take the reader from the subterranean lake beneath the mammoth building, where...
...More than three months after Rother's disappearance, a third search party, composed of 130 civilian and Marine volunteers organized by the San Bernardino sheriff's office, comes across the corporal's M-16 rifle, camouflage clothes and ID card. Not far away, they soon discover dry human bones, presumably those of Rother, scattered across the desert floor. Struggling for survival in daytime temperatures that reached 120 degrees F, the doughty Marine may have made his way almost back to the base in Twentynine Palms. The remains are found only a heartbreaking two miles away...
...hostile takeover for no other purpose than to quickly turn a profit, but they did it over a company in which they were a major shareholder. This same company, RJR-Nabisco, has not only received harsh criticism and censure for agressive and unethical business practices in many Asian and Third World nations but is also the fourth largest investor in the apartheid state of South Africa...
This year, Harvard promised to release results to students in three parts, dividing it into house life, academic advising and general College life. Two batches have already been released, and the third one will come out today. The University has been parceling out bits and pieces to different people, effectively deciding what people need to know what...
...forget Captain Lane MacDonald, Bourbeau's and Young's linemate, whose total of 19 points puts him in a third-place tie with another Crimson teammate, Peter Ciavaglia...