Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between, the better you will like it--more or less according to temperament. Given the least susceptibility to the momentum of laughter and a crowded theatre filled with children, it should work as intended, as farce: plain, simple and mindless. It is all second and third and twelfth-hand material but Bogdanovich has developed a certain sense of timing from all those movies he's watched, and old jokes are the best jokes, anyway. Bogdanovich is reaching way back to film's age of innocence, and if you don't look too closely you can almost believe...
Soloveitchik tirelessly commutes between New York and Boston, where he supervises the enlightened Yeshiva he founded there, the Maimonides School. It is designed to give students from kindergarten through twelfth grade the best in both secular education and Jewish
Twenty Years Older. Just where is American woman today? In a statistical overview, she is nearly 106 million strong, at the median age 30 and with a bit more than a twelfth-grade education. She is likely to be married (61.5%). She makes up more than a third of the national work force, but according to a Department of Labor survey, she generally has a lower-skilled, lower-paying job than a man does. In many jobs she does not get equal pay for equal work. (Her median earnings have actually declined relative to men.) In a recession...
...earnings and lighten their work load. Instead it deprived them of reward for their increased productivity, and their income declined from $17 to $19 a day in 1954 to about $13 today. In relation to other basic tradesmen in Britain, the miners dropped from third place in wages to twelfth in ten years. Ever since the Heath government came to power two years ago, the miners' wages have not kept up with increases in taxes, rents and social service contributions-let alone the rising cost of food and other goods...
...Maggie, Ammann took advantage of California's liberalized abortion law to search for an appropriate fetal thymus. The task proved difficult. For best results, Ammann needed a transplant from a healthy fetus 14 to 20 weeks old. These are rare because most California abortions are performed before the twelfth week of pregnancy. But in December, Ammann found a woman who was having a late abortion on psychiatric grounds and got permission to use the fetus' thymus...