Word: third
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third week of this already-crazy football season, only three Ivy League teams emerged victorious, including a last minute win for Cornell
Brown (2-1, 1-1 Ivy) had scored four straight touchdowns and entered the third quarter with a 28-7 lead before the Big Red began their comeback. Cornell's John Algeo halted the Bears' final drive with an interception, which, combined with his 65-yard fumble return for a touchdown, earned Algeo the Ivy League's Defensive Player of the Week award...
...Initially Moscow said it had 30,000 men around Chechnya to beef up border security while bombing suspected terrorist bases; then it crossed those borders saying it wanted a 10-mile security zone inside Chechnya. But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that his forces now occupy the northern third of the breakaway republic along the east-west line of the River Terek - a fact borne out by reports of fierce fighting from villages deep inside Chechnya. And that suggests that Moscow is trying to partition the territory, taking control of its northern plains and forcing separatist forces back into...
...since the Anschluss has Austria seen a resurgence of Nazi ideas so close to the mainstream. The far-right Freedom party, whose leader, Joerg Haider, has expressed views sympathetic to the Third Reich, became the second largest party in Austria after Sunday?s election, finishing only 6 percent behind the ruling Social Democrats and ahead of its coalition partner, the conservative People?s party. The mystery is how an extremist party has managed to break into the mainstream at a time of prosperity and relative social calm. "Austrians are not angry, they?re bored," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter...
...Freedom party?s strong showing will press the Social Democrats and the People?s party back into their coalition, despite the vow by People?s party leader Wolfgang Schuessel to go into opposition if he finished third. After all, it was only the failure of his squabbling opponents to reach a coalition deal that allowed another Austrian demagogue to win Germany?s 1933 election. And like Hitler, Haider combines an odd assortment of conservative and left-wing economics with a paranoid fear of foreigners, a put-upon sense that his country has been wronged and an exhortation...