Word: actually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlimited guarantee is a gift of something of value unconnected to the product. This sort of ?giveaway? is outlawed in Germany because the government claims it clouds price transparency. If you buy a magazine subscription and you get a free calculator, how much are you paying for the actual subscription...
...They are an attractive tool for the inexpensive spreading of death," explains William M. Arkin, the chief military consultant to Human Rights Watch, which issued a report about the danger of duds titled "Ticking Time Bombs." The report states that the actual dud rate, as measured in the Gulf War, was close to a quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction...
...Ultimately, Hoxby wisely makes no attempt to try to explain why exactly a top-tiered education produces higher wages. The reasons could lie in selective admissions, network connections or the actual education itself, or in none of the above...
...even after they had mastered the theory, Brown says the prospect of launching an actual service program seemed anything but easy...
...example, Caltech's jump from number four to number one can largely be attributed to change in the way school spending per student was evaluated. Rather than using a numerical ranking for a school's per capita expenditure, the survey now considers the actual dollar amount spent by the school on each student...