Word: rates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deplorable that students should have to base their educational decisions on accessibility issues, especially when the institution in consideration has the power to make things accessible, as exemplified in the dorms and buildings which have been made accessible over the past few years. Is Harvard a first-rate educational institution, open to all who are academically qualified, or is it reserved for students untouched by physical or mental hardship...
...rapes in 1979. Today the official annual figure is nearly 50,000, but rape-crisis researchers say only 1 in 35 is reported. That means there are more than 1.6 million rapes a year--the highest incidence in the world, according to Interpol. (In 1998 the official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S. the rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward rape are practically medieval. In Johannesburg, where the HIV-infection rate is reckoned to be 40% among men in the "rapist" age bracket...
...players like Monster.com and HotJobs.com have already scooped up a quarter of the Super Bowl spots on ABC, pushing the going rate up to about $3 million for a precious 30 sec. This week the portal AltaVista, which until six months ago didn't even have a marketing department, will kick off a $120 million advertising blitz. You can't turn on business-news channel CNBC without seeing a barrage of online-broker ads, and broadcasts of the World Series and pro football are packed with obscure Web pitches, from VitaminShoppe.com to Youbet.com an online horse-racing site...
Diets that drastically reduce caloric intake leave most people feeling too physically and emotionally deprived to continue. Also, the body is often quick to recognize caloric deprivation and adjusts by lowering the metabolic rate, thus sabotaging the effect of a lower caloric intake. I saw this when I was a consultant in a hospital weight-loss center that specialized in liquid diets. I was astonished at the number of people on 600-to-800-calorie diets whose weight loss seemed to stall after just a few weeks. Even worse, when you come off such a diet, the metabolism often remains...
...which makes over-the-tire tracks for front-end loaders like Bobcat vehicles. On the contrary, the firm has revenues of just under $25 million; 50 employees are working flat-out, and Loegering wants to hire 10 more in the next year. But in the Fargo area the unemployment rate is a teensy 1.4%, and finding good help is no small task. Last year Loegering's traditional newspaper ads drew only 15 to 20 resumes apiece, even for upper-management positions with competitive salaries. That's when Loegering decided to "step out of the box" to start getting noticed...