Word: par
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...Internet and such commercial operators as CompuServe. ``Sales of CD-ROM drives are doubling and tripling this year,'' says Deborah Monas, an analyst at London's Kagan World Media. The next 10 years are expected to bring a boom that will put much of the developed world on a par with the U.S. Monas predicts that as many as 42.5% of Europe's 153 million TV households will have PCs by 2003 and that 93% of those machines will be equipped with CD-ROM drives. ``The U.S. could reach 57% ((home-PC penetration)) by 2003,'' she says, ``and Britain could...
They have rejected the laws of this country in favor of their own religious beliefs; they are therefore on a par with some of the most despicable terrorists in history...
...numbers show a pattern of low achievement, then the University is failing the students it seeks to help. If this were the case, then the University should make efforts to ensure that the preferentially admitted students are able to take full advantage of a Harvard education--competing on par with their non-minority classmates...
Before an IOP crowd of 100, liberal hotheads Ho and Clarke were joined by conservative firebrand G. Brent McGuire '95, senior council member of Peninsula, and Whitney D. Pidot '96, president of The Harvard Salient and fence-sitter par excellence...
...view from the au pair side of the equation is not much prettier. Au pair means "on a par," and is intended to remind the hosts that their young guests should be treated as family members, not employees. The rules are clear: au pairs are to get a private room, meals, two weeks' vacation and a full weekend off every fourth week. They are not supposed to work more than 45 hours a week and are not expected to do general housework or meal preparation for the family...