Word: amounting
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Thus, the University already is involved in "economic discrimination" against students who are on ROTC. Moreover, the Pentagon is now considering making the amount of aid that students involved in the Navy and Air Force branches receive conditional on whether their schools sponsor ROTC on campus...
This may be true, but parody is also an extremely difficult technique to master, and in the case of Green's film Video Sickness, the amount of hard work put into the project only occasionally results in brilliant humor...
Residents are concerned at the amount of traffic and security problems the facility would create in the neighborhood, they said. They also said they were hoping the site could be used as low-cost housing instead...
There is an additional irony: all the time-saving devices may actually make people work harder. Sometime in the early '80s, suggests futurist Selwyn Enzer, Americans came to worship career status as a measure of individual worth, and many were willing to sacrifice any amount of leisure time to get ahead. "Social scientists underestimated the sense of self-esteem that came with having a career," he observes. These days, if an entrepreneur has not made his first million by the time he is 30, his commitment to capital accumulation is suspect. And in the transition from an industrial...
...achieve controlled fusion. Says Robert Conn, director of UCLA's Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research: "Fusion events should produce radiation ((such as neutrons and gamma rays)), and radiation can be measured. If it's really fusion and there's no radiation, then it's Nirvana." Considering the amount of heat that Pons and Fleischmann reported, physicists say, the accompanying radiation should have killed them. That means either that an unusual sort of fusion took place -- a theory held by some -- or that the two scientists have made a big mistake. One possibility is that they have overlooked some kind...