Word: almost
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...music programs were fun to listen to, but the video seemed redundant: eyeballing a deejay is dull stuff. A space show, Cosmic Visions, had a good documentary about the Cassini mission to the outer planets, but it hardly seemed original. And the chat rooms on the site were almost always desolate...
...guidelines: Although colon cancer can strike at almost any age, it becomes more common after 50. Symptoms include a change in bowel habits, fatigue, gas pains and anemia. Yet the disease produces few, if any, signs of trouble at its earliest, most curable stages. That's why experts recommend that everyone undergo annual screening, beginning at age 50. If there's a strong family history of the disease (particularly if one or more of your parents, sisters or brothers have had it), you may need to start sooner. A good rule of thumb is to begin getting tested 10 years...
...Internet--lower inflation, more productivity, faster growth and a boom longer than anyone had expected, just a few months shy of being the longest in U.S. history. Profound as these effects are, they are only a foretaste of what could change the economy, and the way business is conducted, almost beyond recognition...
...please put heavy emphasis on the words could and almost. A gathering of TIME's Board of Economists, which met in San Francisco and was largely composed of specialists in the workings of nearby Silicon Valley, left a clear message: members were not at all prepared to forecast for the country an automatic or painless ascent into an Internet nirvana...
Overall and long range, however, the growth of the Internet and IT promises much greater gains than losses: in economic growth, productivity, consumption, lower inflation and even, maybe, more leisure. In sum, a better, richer life for almost everyone. To realize the promise of IT, and minimize the risks, we must experiment with new policies and new institutional structures, make provisional decisions about where we should be headed and then experiment some more. The bright side, says Romer, is that it's doable: "We control this process." Both present and past may be prologue, and indeed we ain't seen...