Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lounge next door, but remnants of the free beer and food were evident amid the bidders. The crowd was loud and boisterous, clearly under the influence of more than just excitement for the next item up for sale. But spirits were high as bidders were urged to go higher and beat out the competing offers...
...voucher, but far too little money to allow real choice in the private school market. A poor parent who wanted to use a voucher at the Hathaway Brown school in suburban Shaker Heights would be out of luck: tuition there costs more than $13,000 in the higher grades. The $2,250 vouchers work for religious schools because they receive charitable contributions from their churches, conduct fund raisers and keep salaries excruciatingly low. Starting pay for a Catholic school teacher in the Cleveland metro area is $16,000, vs. $26,490 in public schools...
...collect the volunteers they needed to give their findings any statistical oomph--in part because women didn't want to risk being in the half of the sample group that received conventional therapy instead of the transplant. Over that time, transplant methods improved, and it is thus possible that higher mortality rates from women earlier in the research are dragging down more positive results from women later on. For now, the only answer appears to be more and better studies...
Bagemihl's ideas have caused a stir in the higher, human community, especially among scientists who find it simplistic to equate any animal behavior with human behavior. But Bagemihl stands behind the findings, arguing that if homosexuality comes naturally to other creatures, perhaps it's time to quit getting into such a lather over the fact that it comes naturally to humans too. "Animal sexuality is more complex than we imagined," says Bagemihl. "That diversity is part of human heritage...
...surcease and travail and its unembarrassed talk of caring, Guterson's story becomes a kind of affirmation of open-hearted faith. Ben sees a mountain goat running, and he "felt poised on the cusp of the world, as close to God as he might ever get, with no place higher but heaven itself...