Word: higher
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...agencies operate? Some volunteer organizations can thrive on a shoestring budget, but others are plagued with at least as much administrative overhead as the Department of Health and Human Services. Furthermore, government agencies, despite all their inefficiencies, have built-in oversight procedures and are always directly accountable to a higher authority, as well as, indirectly, the voting public. Would a private group be under--or be willing to submit to--such oversight...
...well as financial assistance. Even if true, it is an insulting assumption--that the poor, disabled, or unemployed are spiritually impoverished as well, and that the best way to remedy social ills is to expose them as a captive audience to what Bush calls "the transforming power of faith." Higher on the social scale does not mean closer to God, and the people do not become more sinful because they are unemployed...
...would debate that because hurricanes gather their strength from the warm surface waters of the central Atlantic, the rise in temperatures has probably added to the magnitude of recent storms, says Jim Lushine, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Miami. "It's safe to assume that the higher water temperatures in the Atlantic are contributing to the intensity of this year's storms," he says. The number of storms is not likely to be affected by the temperature changes, says Lushine, but the strength of the hurricanes will grow as long as water temperatures keep rising...
...beyond comprehension, and only comparison will do ? a storm the size of Texas, blowing winds faster than a speeding bullet train. The hurricane called Floyd is nearing what meteorologists call Class Five status, which means it would have sustained winds of over 156 miles per hour, with gusts even higher than that. Andrew, which killed 26 and caused $25 billion in damage in 1992, may be remembered as the little one ? it was only a Class Four hurricane. More...
...kinds of initiatives are springing up all over the country," says Ann Coles, executive director of the Higher Education Information Center and founder of Kids to College, a program that each year gives 2,000 Massachusetts grade school youngsters a chance to learn about and see colleges. In 1991, when Kids to College began, there were about 20 such programs in the country. Today, she says, there are more than 1,000, including ones sponsored by Exxon...