Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch mentioned several times Harvard was appearing in its second championship game. The Crimson was actually appearing in its third title tilt...
Though there is no reason for fish to be inspected any less strenuously than meat or poultry, the FDA manages to examine just 1% of domestic seafood and 3% of imports (two-thirds of the fish Americans eat comes from abroad). Inspectors get to about a third of the nation's 4,000 seafood-processing plants a year and to some facilities once in three years...
...Junin, Sendero Luminoso is locked in a battle for dominance with the Cuban-oriented M.R.T.A. rebels. The city, says Raul Gonzalez, a sociologist and expert on the Sendero Luminoso, "is now the critical spot to Sendero's future." From there, the Shining Path, which already controls at least one-third of the countryside, intends to take Lima, only 120 miles away, by encircling it and cutting it off from the rest of the country...
...Even that well-oiled machine is wearing down under the same contradictions of Communism that have driven other East bloc economies onto the rocks. Pointing to the increasing scarcity of consumer goods, ten- year waiting lists for East German-made Trabant automobiles and deepening competition in foreign markets from third world producers, a Western diplomat in Berlin says, "They are treading water. Everything is getting pretty waterlogged...
...symbolized by the skyline of the federally financed senior-citizen housing on the town's west side. The eight-story red brick apartment buildings are the only high-rises on the horizon. "Our big industry is Social Security," says Thomas Lee, president of the Union State Bank. "Fully one-third of our checking accounts are senior-citizen deposits." The aging process has also led to a leadership vacuum, as older business people retire from civic life. And the town's young people show no inclination to stay. When a visitor asked a class of 20 Clay County high school students...