Word: proofing
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...unemployed. But whereas a newly jobless person's mental health may "bottom out" after about six months, and then even begin to improve, the mental state of people who are perpetually worried about losing their job "just continues to deteriorate, getting worse and worse," Burchell says. (See 150 recession-proof jobs...
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...since that triumphant, emotional dinner, everything has changed for Republicans, both in Washington and Kentucky - and that includes the relationship between Bunning and McConnell, which is visibly strained. Now the minority leader in the Senate, McConnell knows that Democrats will likely be just one seat away from a filibuster-proof 60 seats by the midterm elections of 2010, and Bunning is an especially vulnerable incumbent. Louisville, the city where Bunning praised McConnell four years ago, now has a liberal Democrat in the House, and the Republican governor McConnell helped elect in 2003 was turned out in a rout...
...unblinking look at Cygnus-Lyra is important because even if Kepler were to detect any telltale fluctuations in stellar light, that wouldn't be proof of a planet. The telescope would have to keep looking and see if the flickering is repeated roughly once a year, or about the time it would take an Earth-like planet to circle around its star and pass in front again. Record three or four such passes, and you can be pretty sure you've got a planet - hence the 3½-year mission...
...failing U.S. economy. If so, one of the prominent features of its decline is that the government could not prevent it. The easy argument against that view is that a state cannot print money to sustain its economy. That is true, but there still is not any proof that printing money at the federal level will buy the country out of a pathological state which is destroying sixty years of the fruits of American capitalism...