Word: third
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your third wife. Did you first see her naked in real life or in Playboy...
...have a saying in the news business: three's a trend. It works something like this. If one tree falls, it was a bad tree; if two trees fall, well, the grass needed more light anyway. But if a third tree topples, stop the presses. There must be some hideous new insect at work, threatening the entire forest. And that's a story. So it is with a trio of recently published books, and I'm not making these names up: Dow 36,000 by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, Dow 40,000 by David Elias...
GARY JOHNSON, 46, New Mexico PROS Will compete in Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii on Oct. 23 for third time; summited Mount McKinley; rode bike across New Mexico five times; hang glided off a 10,000-ft. mountain; nicknamed "Ironman." CONS 6 ft., 168 lbs.; slogan: "People before politics"; never on record as having pummeled anyone...
...since the surgery. My doctors keep saying they're confident my eyes will improve with time--but they also say my experience is extremely unusual (one of them says he's never seen this problem in anyone else), so I'm not sure they know what will happen. A third doctor I consulted said there was nothing wrong surgically, and he too thinks my condition will get better...
...plan that Gore unveiled in early September--more limited than Bradley's--focuses on the elderly and children and attempts to cover no more than a third of America's 45 million uninsured. Behind Gore's plan is the recognition that in the special-interest thicket that is health care, you can make progress only by working to get coverage for one or two constituencies at a time. By contrast, Bradley's goals are nearly as grand as Hillary's: to impose unenforceable "mandates" on parents to provide their children with insurance; to expand Medicare benefits; and to offer subsidies...