Word: apt
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There are many possible explanations for such findings. Since churchgoers are more apt than nonattendees to respect religious injunctions against drinking, drug abuse, smoking and other excesses, it's possible that their better health merely reflects these healthier habits...
...freebie they would not be given had they ordered tickets to the Richard Bey Show. Resting on each of the 175 seats are a pint of milk (low fat) and a snack-size package of Drake's cakes. This is the Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the gimmick is apt. The actress and comic, part brassy New Yorker, part perky den mother, has come to TV to serve up the daytime talk show as comfort food...
...through the trapdoor that opens anytime enough people pull those little levers in the voting booth. (Ask Tom Foley about that.) This is why so many people in that city prefer to seek influence, whether by virtue of the strength of their ideas or their access. The powerful are apt to look a bit careworn, while the winners of the influence game tend to be less accountable in public and for the most part more durable. Together they make up the permanent government of lobbyists, advisers, think tanks and legislative aides...
...netted him a $37,125 profit in a single day. New shares are often doled out by brokerages to favored customers before the rest of the public gets a chance. That makes comparisons to the First Lady's windfall in a series of 1978-80 sweetheart commodity deals seem apt...
...latter comparison is particularly apt since the elderly may have strengthened their own safety net at the expense of the young. "Is there a disproportionate amount of money being spent on people over the age of 65 versus under the age of three?" asks one legislative leader. "Yes, unquestionably. Is it in part a function of their lobbying efforts? Yes, unquestionably. Is it largely a function of their need? No, it is not." Yet as Ira Schwartz, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania, notes, "Seniors and those in the work force don't understand...