Word: existing
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Hayes said it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit women to the Business School not only because there are so few women in the field but also because many institutions have stepped up their efforts to recruit the few numbers that do exist...
...countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version. Those states range from the giant Soviet Union to the tiny Caribbean island country of Grenada. While Poland and France became the first to follow America's lead when they drafted modern constitutions in 1791, the largest impact has been recent. More than three-quarters of today's charters were adopted after World War II. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, could have been speaking for the rest of the Third World when he told the U.S. Congress...
...Hopper stores dead quiet, the city's poor dazed like laundry hung out to dry on their fire escapes. For contrast, seek real country roads, tire-track roads straddling islands of weeds and rolling out into white haze. Such roads are not easy to find these days, but they exist, waiting to trace your solitude back into your memories, your dreams...
Such planets, if they exist, are too small and dark to be detected directly. For six years the Canadians have monitored 16 stars from an observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, looking for the distinctive wobbling motion caused by the gravitational pull of nearby orbiting bodies. Epsilon Eridani, among several others, shows the telltale wobbles...
Most astronomers want further confirmation before they believe other planets exist, but few deny the special appeal of the search. Says Gordon Walker, a member of the Canadian team: "You often wonder when you're looking at these things if someone up there isn't looking back...