Word: harders
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...fourth year, the American Cancer Society claims, as many as 16.5 million people participated in the Smokeout, with a million dropping the habit for good. The campaign was directed in particular at young people; antismoking activists said it was harder to keep teenagers from picking up the habit than to get older people to drop it. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1980 21% of high school students were habitual puffers. Over the years, the Cancer Society has enlisted celebrities and health officials to promote the Smokeout campaign - everyone from Dallas star and ex-smoker Larry Hagman...
...faculty could not keep up, leading some schools to set caps on the number of students who could enter the field.“That process of setting up barriers for entry combined with the more prevalent stereotype of this being a masculine activity meant it was harder to get into, and women were now getting the message that they didn’t really belong there,” Cohoon said.Malan said he believes that this psychological factor still affects the number of females who choose computer science. In terms of academic performance...
...while Nebraska can easily narrow its statute, dealing with the underlying causes of abandonment is much harder, child-welfare experts say. "These parents had to be totally overwhelmed to do something like this," says the Rev. Steven Boes, president of Boys Town - the original safe haven of Father Flanagan fame, which happens to be headquartered in Omaha. Once upon a time, Depression-battered parents would buy bus fare for their children and hand them a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town." Their counterparts today "are parents who have tried to navigate the system for years, and this...
...speeches you have given. If available, please provide the text or recordings of each such speech or identify any recordings of speeches of which you are aware. While this might immediately eliminate a few notorious public figures - like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, say, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - it's harder to tell whether there might be any hidden evils lurking in the dusty VHS recording of your high school graduation speech, other than the bad haircut...
...point scorers broke the top 85, giving Harvard the third-best Ivy League score. “We did well considering all the factors,” Gillespie said. “The [10K] course was like a mudbath, and with a much bigger field, it’s harder to have your own space. I’m proud of the guys, though. They definitely rose above it.” Both squads had to dig deep in order to overcome an extended race. For the first three months of the season the men and women...