Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That lobbying has embraced the middle classes hardly means it's now an equal-opportunity enterprise. Wealthy people can still afford more of it, and the poor are still on the sidelines. Housing projects aren't leading targets for direct-mail solicitations. Still, lobbying has gotten more egalitarian, more democratic, as technology has made mobilizing groups cheaper...
...balanced-budget amendment does go into effect, what are the chances it will actually bring federal spending down enough to equal revenues by 2002, the current target date? Zero, say many cynics. The pain will be so intense that future Congresses will open loopholes big enough to squeeze huge expenditures through. The most likely strategy: simply remove major categories of spending like Social Security pensions from the official budget, so that they do not count among the expenditures that have to be reduced...
...behind the project, Cavalli- Sforza, 72, a Stanford professor, labored with his colleagues for 16 years to create nothing less than the first genetic atlas of the world. The book features more than 500 maps that show areas of genetic similarity -- much as contour maps match up places of equal altitude. By measuring how closely current populations are related, the authors trace the pathways by which early humans migrated around the earth. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree...
...infected T CellNumber 100 million to 1 billion viruses produced each day. Two billion infected cells or T cells, which are 5% of the total T cells in the body.After two days Half of the viruses die and are replaced by roughly in equal amount of new viruses. Half of the infected T cells die and are replaced by new T cells.Effect of anti-HIV drugs Initially, over 99% of the viruses can be killed with drugs like nevirapine. The healthy T cell count increases.After two weeks After mutations, almost all of the new viruses are drug resistant or immune...
Susan E. Mintz, director of the Cambridge Multiservice Center For Homeless People, says such an agreement guarantees homeless people equal rights...