Word: burnes
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Humans have found many uses for the shark, aside from putting it on the dinner table. An extract of its cartilage can serve as a temporary skin for burn victims, and shark corneas have been transplanted into human eyes. Because sharks rarely develop tumors, their immune systems are being studied for anticancer agents. In addition, by preying on sick and injured fish, sharks "help keep the ocean healthy," says Manire. Some biologists believe the rise in stingrays off the Florida panhandle may be a by-product of the shark's decline. Thus an ocean without sharks might be a safer...
...American retail sales (including those from 131 Canadian and Mexican stores) have grown only 14%, from $28 billion to $32 billion, Wal-Mart's have doubled, from $16 billion to $32.6 billion. Sears' overhead expenses still consume 29% of sales, and K mart's 23%, but Wal-Mart's burn up only 16% of sales. Wal-Mart workers are more productive than Sears': they generate an average of $95,000 in sales per employee, in contrast to $85,000 for Sears employees...
...very hard to be a house master," said William H. Bossert '59, who has been master of Lowell House for 16 years. "There's just enormous time pressures," he said, citing teaching, research and administrative commitments. As a consequence, he said, "often you find people who just burn out very quickly...
...enforcers. If he caught a family paying rent to municipal authorities in defiance of the rent boycott, he would serve them with an eviction notice. "If they refused to go," he says, "we'd speak to them in the language of the struggle. We'd kill them and burn their house down...
...outsiders during the week following Thom's death. When they finally did, it was to reminisce for several hours as the warm winter sun sank behind the mountains. They shed no tears, but rather smiled and even laughed as the memories poured forth. Though pain seemed to burn in their eyes, the healing had begun...