Word: proportionate
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Buprenorphine is an opiate too, but it creates only a passing flicker of a high, if that--and it is not addictive. Consequently, the FDA is expected to approve the drug by spring, which would allow physicians to dispense it from the privacy of their offices. For many, that will...
Everyone knows they usually wind up sliding into irrelevancy and dwindling ratings amid desperate plot contrivances, like marriages and multiple births, and, in some sad cases, an irritating self-importance that increases in opposite proportion to the shows' declining popularity (bye, Roseanne). But here was someone who could have been...
The U.S. now enjoys what in many respects is the healthiest economy in its history, and probably that of any nation ever. More than 400,000 new jobs were created last month, bringing unemployment down to 4.6%, the lowest level in almost 25 years. Labor-force participation has also improved...
And then there is Diana, the woman who was, all by herself, the punctum of the late 20th century. She was, for one thing, the princess and the pauper, the improbably lustrous creature who also carried her (our?) mere humanity into the throne room. Sometimes the grief at her death...
But even more visually breathtaking than the divertissements are the truly magical snow scene and the battle scene in the first act, when the Christmas tree grows to a height of 40 feet, and the furniture grows in proportion, reducing Clara to the real-life perspective of a mouse. The...