Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of the death toll, the temblor was among the century's worst. In terms of the magnitude of the shock, though, it was a good deal less severe: the quake that hit Mexico City in 1985, for example, was a considerably more destructive 8.1 seismic shock, yet fewer than 10,000 people died. Experts laid much of the blame for last week's shocking toll on the shoddy construction of the buildings in Armenia's cities and towns. According to Brian Tucker, acting state geologist of California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made...
...reflect a very serious problem in our society. Since it requires two people to give the same response for an answer to go up on the board, it is frightening to consider the answers that were not listed. "Get a job" or "Help support the family" were said by fewer than...
...advisers 15 minutes to sweeten the latest offer. At about 1:15 p.m. on Nov. 30, Johnson, chain smoking, submitted a bid of $112 a share and then settled into a tiny % office to await the verdict. The directors still favored Kravis. "KKR was going to have to sell fewer businesses," a source close to the board said, "and there was more protection for RJR employees under the KKR offer." Moreover, the informant added, while the Johnson group said it would reduce its initial stake in RJR after the takeover from 8.5% to 4%, "they were still trying to steal...
...censors who review shows and commercials for offensive (and potentially litigious) material. During the networks' recent wave of cost cutting, the ranks of these watchdogs were drastically reduced: from a peak of 75 to 80 per network during the 1970s to 35 to 40 today at ABC and fewer than 30 each...
...most common of these is the contention that increasing the minimum wage will throw people out of work. Everyone remembers the graph from Ec. 10 that shows how raising wages above the market level causes firms to hire fewer workers. Sounds simple and convincing...