Word: greater
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Harvard Law School student Michelle Wu ’07, director of APAP-Greater Boston, said she decided to organize the event to link the Asian American student community and local leaders with Cheung, a figure whose accomplishment she said can serve as a model for other Asian Americans...
...think [it’s] the one thing that’s absent from the health care debate. You hear about greater distribution to more people, cutting costs, etc...But I don’t know how you can reform the new healthcare system in America and not talk about innovation, driving new technologies,” Crowley says...
...Republicans on the Finance Committee, during which time support for the bill curdled as Tea Party Summer unfolded. The Democrats also allowed their own special interests - the lawyers, the labor unions - as well as individual members to barnacle the bill with codicils and special deals that worked against the greater good...
...group, the gap was more dramatic: those on the Titanic enjoyed a whopping 48.3% edge; on the Lusitania it was a smaller but still significant 10.4%. The most striking survival disparity - no surprise, given the era - was determined by class. The Titanic's first-class passengers had a 43.9% greater chance of making it off the ship and into a lifeboat than the reference group; the Lusitania's, remarkably, were 11.5% less likely. (See pictures of the Queen Elizabeth 2's final voyage...
...bikes. A recent effort to force buyers to have a license expressly for motorcycles before purchasing a racing bike, for example, was successfully stifled in large part by industry lobbyists. "I don't see where the industry can control the consumer," says Carrington Lloyd III, who owns Greater Yamaha in West Palm Beach and says he supports the law. "You can feed anybody as much knowledge as you want, but they're going to do what they want...