Word: third
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a nap, coach. You've got nothing to worry about. The Crimson is undefeated after seven games, the third-ranked team in the nation, and on top of the ECAC standings...
Born Ludvik Hoch, Maxwell was the third of nine children of dirt-poor Hasidic Jews living in the eastern slice of Czechoslovakia known as Ruthenia. During World War II, he lost his parents and four siblings in Auschwitz; he escaped by joining the French underground. He had only three years of schooling but was a genius with languages -- he could speak eight by the time he was grown -- and figures. He joined the British forces and in two years transformed himself from a Czech ruffian into a British army officer who was awarded the Military Cross for bravery in charging...
...Treasury for Finance. One out of every six savings and loans has gone bankrupt, and the Treasury Under Secretary will have to concoct a plan to raise $60 billion to bail them out. In his spare time he will oversee the so-called Baker Plan for easing the Third World debt crisis and coordinate efforts to steady the unstable dollar...
...parliament's 237 seats, decisively beating the Islamic Democratic Alliance, its nearest competitor and the relic of Zia, who died in a plane crash three months before the vote. The Alliance won only 55 seats. A surge of ethnic support thrust the fledgling Mohajir Qaumi Movement into the third and pivotal position with 13 seats...
...Sununu is no Dan Quayle. A seasoned and quick-witted political street fighter, he is respected as crafty, tough and stubborn. An M.I.T.-trained engineer and nuclear-power enthusiast who is completing his third term as Governor, he holds a deep conservatism that is both economic and social. Sununu helped turn around Bush's flagging campaign during the New Hampshire primary, when he urged the Vice President to emphasize his "no new taxes" pledge. The Governor then served as the campaign's top Dukakis basher, shadowing his Massachusetts counterpart and ridiculing him. Some Bush aides are concerned that the combative...