Word: papered
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...number of knee replacements done annually in the U.S. will jump 525% by 2030. You read correctly: 525%. This prediction comes out of a paper presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Hip replacements? Those will more than double, rising from 285,000 to 573,000. And the money spent on these procedures is expected to reach $65.2 billion by 2015, putting a huge burden on federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, which pay for about 60% of U.S. joint replacements...
Senator Hillary Clinton recently has taken to scolding Senator Barack Obama for being all talk and no action. Swap Obama’s speech for his position paper, however, and you’ll see he does offer specifics—lots of them. On top of $210 billion in new government spending, Obama promises to shackle U.S. businesses with heavy regulation. If he becomes president, he’ll do more than bring change: he’ll force Americans into an economic straitjacket. To “rebuild the middle class,” Obama will resuscitate labor...
...this year and, over the past month, has kind of found another level. That was a big-time play by a big-time player in a big game.”While senior Tyler Magura’s empty-net goal rounded out the scoring in what appeared on paper to be a rather one-sided game, the Crimson dodged bullets all night. Cornell produced several extended possessions in the Harvard zone, pressuring Richter and firing several shots towards net. The Crimson defense played its part, blocking 13 shots and forcing several others wide by cutting off lanes. But there...
...campus’s paper of record, The Crimson, also could not permit silence to drown out hope. Only Barack Obama, it opined, has the “vision required not only to be president, but to fundamentally alter the way our broken political system functions” and a singular “desire to see dramatic change in the political system.” Brimming with nostalgia for the 1970s, those halcyon years for campus radicals, The Crimson can only view the political landscape through rose-colored glasses...
...Weapon-makers first cut the head off a 4-inch nail, which is then chiseled with a heavy hammer into a sharp edge. The nail is then coiled to fit onto a bamboo stick. A groove is cut into the bottom of the stick in order to add paraffin paper wings for the arrow to have better flight. Sometimes, the arrow is dipped into frog or snake poison before being released. The bow is made by forcefully bending hard wood and adding string and springs. The result is a four-foot bow that can shoot an arrow for over...