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  • In recent weeks, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has notified United Nations inspectors that it has begun deploying what are described as second- and third-generation centrifuges at its uranium-enrichment facility in the city of Natanz, according to diplomats briefed on the correspondence.

    Iran Claims Progress Speeding Nuclear Program Jay Solomon 2011

  • Frequently described as the second- or third-richest man in the United States after John D. Rockefeller and perhaps Henry Ford, except when he was described as richer than either of them, Mellon was a man of refinement his collection would become the foundation of the National Gallery of Art and an austere, even forbidding manner.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Frequently described as the second- or third-richest man in the United States after John D. Rockefeller and perhaps Henry Ford, except when he was described as richer than either of them, Mellon was a man of refinement his collection would become the foundation of the National Gallery of Art and an austere, even forbidding manner.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • It had 112 projects in 62 cities by the end of last year, with 95 percent of those developments in so-called second- and third- tier cities.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • ECB policy makers are concerned about so-called second- round effects, when companies increase prices and boost wages to compensate for higher costs, entrenching faster inflation.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • "A lot of the problem is, I think, that there are plenty of second- and third-generation Asian-Americans who would be interested in seeing more films with Asian-Americans in them, but don't necessarily hear about the small, independent films."

    For Foreign Films, the City Shrinks Martin Tsai 2011

  • In the fog, the Queen Victoria, with its second- and third-story porches, looked like a faded photograph of a nineteenth-century hotel.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • The Raiders already didn't have a second- or fourth-round pick in the 2012 draft, so drafting Pryor leaves the Raiders without a draft pick between the first and fifth rounds.

    Hank Koebler: Don't Give Up on Pryor or Raiders Yet Hank Koebler 2011

  • But that, as it turns out, was what the second- and third-to-final hours were for.

    2011's Best Episodes: Oprah's Last Lesson in Gratitude, the Housewives' Game Night Goes Wild 2011

  • It may seem like the area's economy is just limping along, but Gallup ranked D.C. and Maryland as the second- and fifth-best job markets in the nation for 2010.

    Area job market sizzles 2011

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