Later in September, the Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris bourses finalised their union, to create Euronext, a third force in Europe.
Despite the emergence of the centrist contender Francois Bayrou as a third force at the presidential election, the parliamentary vote largely confirmed the two-party system.
Some voters hedged their bets in the proportional-representation part of the ballot by supporting the new Your Party that is fast emerging as a third force in Japanese politics (see article).
There was talk when I was there of what they call a third force that--which would be dissident members of Mr. Mugabe's party, Zanu PF, joining up with some of the current opposition, the MDC.
They are unlikely to unite as a coherent third force of politics, but have great veto power over national matters.
That could leave the door open for a "third force": 61-year-old Razaleigh, who narrowly failed to topple Mahathir 11 year ago.
The Afghan National Army, which has to replace and train nearly a third of its force every year because of desertion and attrition, is facing an insurgency that has not given up the fight.
During the four-and-a-half months of the infamous battle, the corps lost 499 airmen and 782 aeroplanes - a third of its total force.
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Expect more union trouble after the unveiling, on July 7th, of the second stage of a five-year plan, also inherited from the right, to turn France's army into a volunteer, professional force, cutting numbers by a third within four years.
Hefei offers a well-educated work force, sometimes for about a third of the cost of hiring in Shanghai.
About a third of Japan's labor force are temporary workers who have no job security.
The Nets shooting guard scored 11 crucial points over the final 27 minutes of play, helping to force a second and third overtime.
According to the report, just a third of the drop in labor force participation came from those who still wanted a job and only 15% of those folks are of prime working age, 25 to 54.
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The Premier League club, after years of playing second banana to Manchester United, is now a legitimate force, having finished third, first and second in the past three seasons and winning an FA Cup along the way.
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It requires refunds through a third-party administrator for homeowners with force-placed policies since 2008 who defaulted on mortgages because of them or were erroneously charged.
Wyman insists that the impact will be slight, because Motorola will have reduced its work force by more than a third by the second quarter of 2003.
Instead, simply being logged into both places (and having the accounts linked) was enough to force users off of a third-party website and onto Facebook's error page.
It requires refunds through a third-party administrator for homeowners with force-placed policies since 2008 who defaulted on mortgages because of them or who were erroneously charged wrong rates or for policies when their own were still in force.
Women have long been accumulating economic heft, accounting for 47% of the nation's overall labor force, up from about a third in 1960.
New Jersey is just the third team in NHL history to force a Game 6 in the finals after losing its first three.
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More than a third of the 182 Predators deployed by the Air Force have crashed in combat or other operations, according to Air Force statistics.
Most recently, the Swans came back from 2-1 down here to a force a replay against Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup.
The third establishes an inter-agency task force to lead a systematic review of detention policies and procedures and a review of all individual cases.
The Air Force announced earlier this week that it is grounding a third of its active-duty fleet through September 30 due to a shortfall in funding driven by the need to bring spending into compliance with the deficit law.
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The force later confirmed a young girl also suffered "minor scratches" in a third incident.
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Lee briefly rallied in the third set, but never looked likely to be able to force Henman into a fourth.
Two military men stationed at Buckley Air Force Base here have been identified as fatalities of the movie theater shooting, and a third was treated and released at the scene.
If the liberals become Germany's third force in the state, many of them would hope to displace the Greens in a ruling coalition in Berlin as well as in Dusseldorf.
In the total labour force, only 12.5% of workers are in a union, down from about a third in the 1950s (see chart below).
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