Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collect damages, each of the nine lead plaintiffs in the Florida case needs to show that he or she was deceived and that the illnesses were caused by smoking. So far, no one has figured out how to sort through the individual claims of the other half a million class members. And it may not get that far. The defendants will no doubt appeal the jury's verdict, and they have often fared well on appeal. In a little more than a year, Florida appellate courts have thrown out a $1 million verdict and a $750,000 verdict in tobacco...
...sure, what propelled the Apollo crewmen to the moon was more than just "Kilroy was here" egoism. Over the course of the half a dozen landing missions, the astronauts pried loose and carried home 838.2 lbs. of lunar rocks, providing Earthbound scientists with rare tissue samples of a nearby body whose geological origins mirror the solar system's own. Priceless as the artifacts were, however, in the days of Apollo, geology was always trumped by poetry, and everybody within the space community knew...
...Fully half of Dawson's pay--about $24 an hour plus overtime--goes directly, by payroll deduction, into Ford's employee stock-purchase program. Since he began buying Ford stock in 1956, it has returned 13.7% a year on average, outpacing...
...About half of all families today are marked by multiple marriages and mingled surnames. Parents and children no longer necessarily share a family name. Schools cope by sending mail addressed "To the parents of..." But without Mr. and Mrs., how should children address adults...
Stuck on You, a comedy co-starring Woody Allen as half of a conjoined-twin pair, is being developed by gross-out auteurs Peter and Bobby Farrelly...