Word: constantly
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...relation between an object's distance and the speed at which it is receding is represented by what astronomers call the Hubble constant. Discovery of the constant would lead to an estimate of the age of the universe...
While astronomers earlier had a less accurate estimate of the Hubble constant, the team's work has provided a narrower estimate--and thus a better estimate of the universe...
...researchers relied on Cepheid variable stars, whose brightness is constant and measured, as an indicator of distance of the remote galaxies...
...Americans felt they couldn't watch the TV news with their children, reducing that number to only one family in Illinois could be seen as progress. Still, Elizabeth Dole remains enormously popular, and the Democrats are indulging in wishful thinking, not to speak of poor taste, with their constant demands for an investigation of what they persist in calling "Tinklegate...
During most of this decade the federal government faced substantial cost and budget constraints and Pell grant maximums actually decreased in real dollars, while decreasing even more when measured in constant dollars. From 1990 through 1995, for example, individual students received less Pell Grant assistance each year than they did the previous year--and the College bridged the gap using its own resources. I might gently remind the editors that during this extended period of Pell decreases there were no campus editorials calling for students to receive less scholarship money because of reduced Pell authorizations...