Word: extents
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Gordon, however, points out that if wage increases cut into profits, that is good news for workers, at least those who stay off the unemployment lines. Labor is likely to recapture some of the share of national income it lost to profits in the early '90s. To the extent that wage increases run ahead of price boosts, workers' real incomes will also rise absolutely as well as relatively. And that is likely to happen, despite the fact that most of the economists expect inflation to quicken a bit from its current astonishingly slow pace--an annual rate of less than...
...they are helped, to the extent a broken vessel can be helped. Later Del Castilho will send "Chaplain Michael" a note thanking him; Horace will agree, "Yessir, to me he seemed young, but I guess we all got to start somewhere." Tonight the new widower says simply, "She's gone to a much better place." Then the family, Michael Baker at their side, enters Marilyn Yopp's room, where Marshburn lays her head against her mother's face and cries, and cries, and cries...
...Brothers' most recent sideshow attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else seems to have had a ball. Whatever there is about Mary, I didn...
However, the bylaws of the new corporationattempt to prevent these problems through a systemof open decision-making. According to theproposal, the board is required to "operate to themaximum extent feasible in an open and transparentmanner...consistent with procedures designed toensure fairness...
Injuries and losses have made it difficult to be confident in this year's team. Last year, the Crimson never faced adversity to the same extent as this year...