• It's impossible to look at Teixeira's situation without comparing it to a more complicated Yankee drama: the status of third baseman Alex Rodriguez.

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  • It insists, too, that the third redeployment must be subsumed in the permanent-status talks, which, it proposes, should start forthwith.

    ECONOMIST: Send off the referee, says Israel | The

  • Figures from the United Nations suggest that of the 1.8 million Iraqis seeking refugee status across the world, almost a third are from smaller minority groups.

    BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Iraq's minorities 'face violence'

  • This has several important implications, which include the increased costs resulting from this third-party interference and the ambiguous nature of trust protector status and duties in American case law.

    FORBES: Trust Protectors: Coming Out of the Woodwork

  • With independence in 1962, the adoption of Arabic as the national language was a natural choice to mark the break with France and forge an identity suited to the country's new status as a third-world leader.

    ECONOMIST: Algeria

  • Its membership has slumped by a third in the past decade to 2.7m and its status as Germany's (and the western world's) biggest union is being challenged by a new service-sector union expected to embrace some 3.2m workers.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • Both sides declared cease-fires on Monday, and President Boris Trajkovski said he would consider upgrading the status of the ethnic Albanians, who account for nearly a third of Macedonia's two million people.

    CNN: Leaders gather for Macedonia talks

  • His hockey stick, which purported to demonstrate the link between man-made carbon emissions and catastrophic global warming, was the central pillar of the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report, and it brought him near-legendary status in his community.

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  • Well into its third century (having opened its doors in 1788), the Greenbrier has attained almost mythic status, though the recent past hasn't been kind.

    FORBES: Head 2 Head

  • They see youths burning through cash, and rich people who are totally oblivious to the sacrifices made by earlier generations that helped places like Singapore climb from Third World to First World status in just a few decades.

    WSJ: Wealth Over the Edge | WSJ.Money Spring 2013

  • The vast majority of books belong to a third category: still protected by copyright, or of uncertain status, and out of print.

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  • No Republican, not even Ron Paul, is going beyond the status quo to insist that top marginal tax rates must be cut by at least a third (ideally scrapping the current income-tax system altogether and replacing it with a pro-growth, low-single-rate tax system that does not punish saving, investing and entrepreneurial risk-taking as the current progressive income tax does).

    FORBES: Memo To The President: We Can't Tax, Spend And Print Our Way To Prosperity

  • Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

    FORBES: What Is 'The Real Thing' With Coke?

  • With Rodriguez's status in doubt, the Yankees picked up 33-year-old Kevin Youkilis to take over at third base and 35-year-old Travis Hafner to handle the designated hitter duties.

    WSJ: Yankees putting on Old-Timer's Day all season long

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