Word: almost
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...Derwinski can't give satisfactory answers, he should be disqualified from service in Bush's cabinet. Even if he isn't anti-Semitic, an inability to explain his silence would signify that he condones others' anti-Semitism. This is almost as reprehensible...
...Without a couple of starters, [the tournament] gave a good opportunity for the younger players to get experience against some good teams that they normally wouldn't have gotten," Dooley said. "We're a young team with eight or nine freshmen, which is almost half of the team. I learned a tremendous amount about what they could and could...
Foreign ownership of American farms, companies, banks and bonds has almost doubled since 1981 and now approaches $1.5 trillion. A lower dollar will eventually increase American exports--but will it be America any longer...
...last analysis, the waste crisis is almost always most effectively attacked close to the source. There should be an international ban on the export of environmentally dangerous waste, especially to countries without the proven technology to dispose of it safely. In the past two years, some 3 million tons of hazardous waste have been transported from the U.S. and Western Europe on ships like the Pelicano to countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. Observed Saad M. Baba, third secretary in the Nigerian mission to the U.N.: "International dumping is the equivalent of declaring war on the people of a country...
Knowledge of the whole refuse cycle is imperative. Of the more than 48,000 chemicals listed by the EPA, next to nothing is currently known about the toxic effects of almost 38,000. Fewer than 1,000 have been tested for acute effects, and only about 500 for their cancer-causing, reproductive or mutagenic effects. Funding must be increased for such research...