Word: fewer
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...have to pity people who don't know how to type. There are fewer and fewer such creatures around nowadays, but once in a while you spot one. While others sit staring endlessly at the screen, looking for just the right word, they sit staring endlessly at the keyboard, looking for just the right letter...
Conceptually, marriage may be evolving from "out of two, one" into "out of two, two." This means we will be getting married later in life, when careers and personalities are already determined, and it could mean we will divorce at very high rates. Alternatively, it could just mean fewer marriages, or, as seems the most likely, a redefinition of what it means to be married...
...would be a pretty thing to think that a gentle, genial spirit like Guido's could effectively resist totalitarianism at its most terrible. But it cannot--unless, of course, you rewrite the past and in the process travesty tragedy. The witnesses to the Holocaust--its living victims--inevitably grow fewer every year. The voices that would deny it ever took place remain strident. The newer generations hurry heedlessly into the future. In this climate, turning even a small corner of this century's central horror into feel-good popular entertainment is abhorrent. Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing...
...Mercedes-Benz plant illustrates a fundamental principle of corporate welfare: everyone else pays for economic incentives--either with higher taxes, fewer services or both...
...Christian duty. But they see their goals achieved through terror, such as the receipt, at four clinics last Friday, of letters supposedly containing anthrax, which sent 33 people to the hospital. What good is the right to an abortion if there's no way to get one? There are fewer clinics today (one in all of Buffalo, for example), and they are more widely dispersed. Far fewer doctors do the procedure, and even fewer are being trained to do it. Some clinics can't get insurance or find landlords willing to take the chance that their property will be fire...