Word: majority
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...subjected to vibrations or high Gs." Moreover, the scientific gear (though not the balloon) will be recoverable, drifting back to earth by parachute at the end of a mission. Scientists, to be sure, have been flying high-altitude balloons since the 1950s. But there was always a major drawback: as the balloons rose, the sun's heat expanded their gas, and helium had to be vented to keep the balloon from exploding. Then, as the sun set and the gases contracted, ballast had to be dropped to keep it aloft. Missions rarely saw more than one or two sunsets...
...mindful that its Christian conservative base will not be happy. That's why House Republicans last week looked like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk--imitating forward movement toward impeachment while in reality backing away. Though Hyde said right after the election that Starr would be his committee's sole major witness, committee aides were suggesting he may call others, including presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey...
...their family doctors. And they spend almost as much out of pocket (not reimbursed by health insurance) on alternative medicine ($27 billion) as on all unreimbursed physician services ($29 billion). Small wonder that analysts from top brokerage houses were earnestly looking forward to meeting and greeting leaders of major nutritional-products companies at a gathering in New York City this week...
Gene therapy seems wondrous and, as a new form of intimate intervention in nature's business, vaguely disconcerting. The other major approach to angiogenesis--drilling tiny holes directly into the beating heart muscle with a laser--seems aggressively screwy. But the procedure (called transmyocardial revascularization) seems to work. And as violent as it sounds, it appears to be relatively safe...
...major television network bought advertising space on a banana I recently ate. This is not a sentence I've had a chance to say often in my life, so I'm going to repeat it: A major television network bought advertising space on a banana I recently...