Word: dwarf
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...meeting, residents asked Kingston why illegal immigrants get Social Security benefits (they don't), if members of Congress pay into Social Security (they do) and why the U.S. didn't employ the money it uses for foreign aid to pay for Social Security (the costs of Social Security completely dwarf the U.S. foreign aid budget). When he explained government would only put the money of workers into safe funds, a group of women immediately shouted "what's safe?" They don?t trust us," Kingston admitted...
...Economic Cooperation organization (APEC), it is fast emerging as the major trading partner to some of Latin America's largest economies. The European decision to lift its arms embargo may reflect an awareness of the strategic significance of Beijing's emergence as an economic power - a dynamic that will dwarf the U.S. war with al-Qaeda in terms of its impact on the global strategic balance. And as China emerges alongside other new players such as India and Brazil, the U.S. will find itself forced to engage with a growing share of the international community that no longer deems...
...Union, its confidence may be at an all-time high and its league record may dwarf Harvard’s, but Lehman’s squad won’t be taking tonight’s contest lightly either. A historically weak program which only made the jump from Division III to Division I in 1991, the Dutchmen will be discounted, according to Lehman, until they string together a series of noteworthy performances on a consistent basis...
...spread all the way to Southeast Asia by 1.8 million years ago (the celebrated Java Man was the first to be discovered). Previous excavations in central Flores had already uncovered primitive stone tools, dating to about 800,000 years ago, mixed in with fossils of an extinct species of dwarf elephant known as Stegodon...
...wasn't an ape. It resembled the famous Lucy in stature and brain size, but the shape of the skull is very different; besides, Lucy is more than 3 million years older. The tiny brain also rules out the theory that this was a type of Pygmy, midget or dwarf, whose brains are all comparable in scale to those of full-size adults. But evolution does provide an explanation, known to biologists as the Island Rule: when isolated on small islands in the absence of big predators, large mammals tend to evolve toward smaller sizes. That's because they...