Word: perring
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...appeared in all 28 games and made 11 starts last year, averaging 24 minutes per contest...
Reports predicted that viewers in China could see as many as 300-400 meteors per hour, but the bright lights shining all night in Boston limited visibility...
Student enrollment throughout all 12 public middle schools showed an increase of about 100 students per year for the past three years. 45 percent of these students come from low-income families, 55 percent from high-income families...
...have more people who live under the poverty line. In terms of relative poverty, that's true. But if you look at absolute poverty, you get a different impression. Because our GDP per capita tends to be higher than GDP per capita in European countries, the people who fall below the poverty line [in the U.S.] are not necessarily considered poor elsewhere...
What about health care? Is the U.S. health care system really that much worse than Europe's? There are basically three numbers that always come up when people talk about the American health care system: average life expectancy, infant mortality and the mount of money we spend per head. Average life expectancy is at the low end of the European scale. We don't do well in terms of infant mortality, either. [And] we spend almost twice as much per person in health care expenditure. Fifteen percent of Americans don't have any insurance coverage. That's undeniable...