Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tunisia. Yet North African Christianity was virtually erased by the massive Moslem invasions that swept across the northern part of the continent in the 7th and 8th centuries; only the churches of Ethiopia and Egypt survived. Even today, Islam remains the largest religion in Africa, claiming almost one-third of the continent's 300 million people...
...Larry Thomas, 26, an Atlanta insurance agent. In fact, he has a profit. The computer stock that he bought at 12 on a tip from a friend now sells at about 141, and his $9,600 initial investment is worth around $11,600. That, however, is less than one-third of the $37,600 he counted on paper last spring, when the stock briefly touched...
...lawyer who mixed a homebrew "friction proofing" in a 55-gal. drum and sold bottles of it to local garages. Sales last year were $14 million. The Bardahl Mfg. Corp. markets 18 products in 82 countries. Its private owners do not disclose sales figures, but the company is probably third in size, behind STP and Wynn...
...Boss. The M.T.A. has also been caught in a political dispute between the Republican state administration and Democrat Nickerson, who yearns to run for Governor. The county pays less than one-third of the $1.8 million that the M.T.A. bills it annually for station maintenance. Nickerson contends that the bills are unconstitutional. The railroad could use the money. It is losing more than $1,000,000 a month. The M.T.A. is suing Nassau County in state courts for the unpaid bills...
...yellow men, Maziere believes, who created the first stone giants, the finest sculptures on the island. In the second epoch, which in Maziere's rough chronology began in the 13th century, the island was invaded by Polynesians who struggled for supremacy until, at the start of the third epoch, they succeeded in incinerating the yellow men in a volcanic ravine. In the third epoch, the Polynesians continued to make modi in a degenerate style, until the white man's diseases and depredations took the heart and the art out of their culture...