Word: rarer
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...National Teens for Life, which was formed in the mid-'80s and has been drafting young members ever since. The pro-life cause has also received a boost from technology. The morning-after pill and new forms of contraception like Depo-Provera have made surgical abortion that much rarer, and high-resolution sonogram images have made an embryo's first moments that much more real...
...students. Once a few bad apples get caught, the trust the faculty and the administration presently grant students—most of whom are honest and hard-working—will be replaced by suspicion as teachers feel justified to crack down. Positive interactions with teachers will become much rarer as they devote more time to administrative reprisal; when students see professors as adversaries rather than partners in education, office hours attendance will plummet...
...with IWC to produce 2,000 of the $4,400 GST Chrono-Automatic. Swiss horologists Omega brought out 10,007 of the $1,900 James Bond 007 to coincide with the latest Bond flick. And Zenith reintroduced their Grande Class Star line, making only 500, at $13,492 apiece. Rarer still is the $420,000 Genghis Khan by Ulysse Nardin: only 30 have ever been made. But don't get your hopes up - just four are produced every year, and there's a four-year waiting list. Pedigree Pays for Fay Why are industry insiders bullish on Fay, a little...
...rare as it is to have two siblings playing on the same team in college sports, it is even rarer to see them combine to produce a crucial play at the end of the game and propel their team to a victory...
...plates of fruits in the new edition of Pomona Britannica are arranged as they were in Brookshaw's book, as well as in roughly the order they would appear on one's table: seasonally. He starts with strawberries - shown in hues from white to the familiar scarlet and the rarer black - and other "aggregate" fruits like raspberries, currants and gooseberries. Next come stone fruits - cherries that deepen in shade from pale orange-red to deep purple; plums in all the primary colors; apricots; peaches; nectarines. He includes pineapples - brought to Europe by Columbus and one of the more popular fruits...