Word: centralized
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While Fast ForWord hasn't helped everyone, it has shown remarkable success with many kids who suffer from a condition known as central auditory processing disorder. People with this ailment, which may afflict up to 4 million primary and secondary school students, have difficulty distinguishing between phonemes--the basic building blocks of language--and particularly between consonants like b, d and p, which fly by in milliseconds during conversation. The condition may also retard reading, since the children can't easily match up the indistinct sounds they hear with the letters on a page...
...plane that stops first at a uranium-mining town called Olympic Dam, a cluster of machinery and huts in absolute flatness--red desert all around. As soon as you get out of the plane (which has to refuel), you are assailed by millions of flies. The fly biomass of central Australia must be 10 times the biomass of humans or kangaroos. You at once start doing the irritable wave of the hand known as the outback salute. The flies crawl into your nostrils, eyes and ears, and when you get back in the plane, they fly in clouds into...
McCain is not the only presidential hopeful making campaign finance reform an issue in the primaries, though he is the only Republican who has made the issue so central to his campaign...
...McCain and Bradley want to build support for their presidential bids using campaign finance reform as a central issue, they must be able to explain the rather technical legal issue in ways voters can understand...
...Central Scouting Bureau pre-draft report ranked Clark 100th among North American players eligible for this year's draft...