Word: proportionate
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The Flintstones fares better than Maverick. In Bedrock the finest restaurant is the Cavern on the Green. Down at the drive-in they're playing Tar Wars. People talk about spending a relaxing week in Rocapulco. Puns may be the lowest form of humor, but in this movie such wordplay...
Also boosting the opportunity for such violence is the fact that nearly 58% of the military are married, perhaps the highest proportion in history. According to Pentagon figures, abuse is largely confined to midlevel enlisted personnel like Air Force, Army and Marine sergeants and Navy petty officers. They're old...
If Sylvia Plath were alive today, she would be a venerable 61 years old. (Given the shift in the times, she also might be on Prozac.) But the poet who dies young is remembered in her youthful glory, a literary James Dean. Attention to Plath's life has been paid...
Five of the council's 79 members--or 6.3percent--are Latino, according to Gregoire. Thistotal approaches the proportion of Latinosenrolled in the College--8.4 percent--as of thefall of 1992.
Some experts believe the number of serial killers is rising. "Going back to 1960, you had about 10,000 homicides a year in the U.S., and most of these were solved and very few of them represented multiple or serial killers," notes Ressler, now a forensic consultant in Spotsylvania, Virginia...