Word: mite
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...competition consisted of nine programing challenges, ranging from the practical problems of "von Neuman Airport's" traffic-load, to the fictitious quandaries of a troubled cheese mite named "Amelia Cheese Mite...
Suria's e-mail, however, was a mite more skeptical than Bezos makes out--definitely no "Wow"--and the analyst is just as bitingly critical of Amazon as before. "Nothing's changed," says Suria. "We still expect cash to be a problem in the first quarter. We still expect the party to be over...
...when inhaled, can attach themselves to the intestinal walls and cause flulike symptoms. A 1999 Mayo Clinic study attributed nearly all the chronic sinus infections afflicting 37 million Americans to molds. And that's just mold. Today's energy-efficient homes constantly recycle everything from combustion fumes to dust-mite allergens...
...have dust-mite covers on the beds, but neither Rachel nor I am allergic, and Rachel hasn't had an asthma attack since we left Los Angeles. Penny, our English Setter, doesn't shed much except in spring, and she is bathed once every two weeks. If she were a cat, Shaughnessy says, she would have to be bathed once a week to keep her dander down...
...true measure ofphilanthropy lies in giving, even when it hurts. And then a widow's mite trumps the rich man's might." OWEN WILLIS Tantallon...