Word: three-year-old
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...radical school of economics at Harvard seemed destined to suffer a slow death until the Economics Department suddenly this week reversed a three-year-old decision and appointed Herbert M. Gintis, lecturer on Education and a radical economist, to its faculty...
...bother the Tbilisians, who were out to welcome their second most famous native son (after Stalin). Though born in Leningrad (in 1904), Balanchine comes from Georgian stock. Among those on hand to greet him was his brother Andrei Balanchivadze, 66, a prominent if somewhat outdated composer, a three-year-old grandnephew, also named Andrei, and scores of other Georgians claiming kinship and free tickets...
...election that will be held Nov. 19. The vote, beyond ending a deadlock that has turned their Bundestag into a cockpit of frustration, will amount to nothing less than a referendum on the future of the Federal Republic. It will decide whether West Germany will continue on the three-year-old course set by Chancellor Willy Brandt and his left-of-center Social Democrats-or return to the leadership of the more conservative Christian Democrats who governed West Germany for 20 years after World...
Brandt began his campaign in the border towns in part to point up the chief accomplishment of his three-year-old government. As he can justly boast, he has reduced "tension and confrontation" between the two Germanys and between the East and West blocs. By signing treaties with Moscow and Warsaw that renounced Germany's old land claims-and by accepting the division of Germany into what Bonn now refers to as "two states in one nation" -Brandt led the way toward détente in Europe. His early initiatives eventually led to a four-power agreement on Berlin...
Silence draped the room. Little Hillary and three-year-old Thomas shot an ironic glance across the table. They knew the score...