Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, NIH will now accept only bibliographies of fewer than two pages, a policy intended to discourage printfrenzied scientists from slapping their names on every article that passes through their labs...
...Slash the number of council members. In order to promote more competitive council elections, there should be fewer representatives from each house or Yard area. Instead of five from most house and six from the few biggest ones, there should be three council members per house, and four for the largest houses...
...giveaway to Bush's rich friends and thundered about a "defining issue" -- one on which Democrats should hold fast to demonstrate just what the difference is between their party and the Republicans. For Bush to prevail in the House, even assuming total G.O.P. support, he needed no fewer than 42 Democratic defectors...
...mothers in court who could hold a family together," says Penny Ferrer, director of New York City's office of adoption services. "But crack mothers cannot." And even as new cases cascade into the child-welfare system, the number of foster parents has been declining. With more women working, fewer are home to take in children. Some adoption officials foresee an eventual return to the system of warehousing children in orphanages...
...21st century the U.S. work force will need fewer strong backs and more strong minds. To prepare for that future, local businesses are pairing up with local schools to provide students with training and jobs. Since 1974 St. Louis County has had a program, now expanded to Kansas City, that gives high school seniors two hours of instruction each day at area work sites. About half the participating students, who this year number 100, get jobs after graduation; most of the rest go on to college. California has had a similar program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students...