Word: rare
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...number of times. And you'll probably beat the CT-cancer odds too. If the doctor's answer to your questions, however, is something like "Well, why not do a CT scan?" or "A CT scan would show it too" or "A CT scan would rule out something rare" my response would be "Why not skip the scan?" One in fifty cancers is a hard number to ignore...
Military powers controlled seven of South America's 10 countries as recently as 1980 but even then cross-border conflict was rare. Everyone would like it to stay that way. A regional arms race is hardly the best way to keep the peace...
...came into the Cabinet with a bang left with a whimper - and a rare show of humility to boot. "Even though I am not leaving my post voluntarily, I am not bitter," Blocher told the politicians assembled in the parliament to bid him farewell. He also apologized for any offenses, insisting "it was never my intention to hurt anyone...
...whites is a mark of racial solidarity rather than a prejudice to be minimized and eventually abandoned. So I'm doing what I do because I was poor once myself, and I know how the soul of many can be impoverished by being poor. Personal approval is only a rare bit of icing on the cake. Most likely, Steele has a few masks of his own that become apparent only by reading between the lines of his article. Frank Kizer, BARTLETT, TENN...
...heights the loonie reached, for the economic upheaval (both good and bad) it brought, and for the rare bird's-eye view that Canada got, looking down on its best friend and biggest rival in the world - where, let us not forget, people rarely fail to find the term loonie hilarious to begin with - the lofty loonie is TIME's Canadian Newsmaker of the Year...