Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national survey of reading ability found that on a scale of 0 to 500, parochial school fourth-graders scored eight points better than their public school counterparts. In eighth grade they did eleven points better, and in eleventh grade...
...Continental conglomerate in preparation for the era beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching pad for companies aiming to compete on a global scale. When that happens, Belgium Inc. could become the first holder of the title Europe...
Shuttle contractors have an incentive to emphasize schedule over safety, according to one Rockwell engineer, because they are paid bonuses on an increasing scale according to "how quickly a job is completed. Thus, managers pressure their employees even when work is on schedule." All the shortcuts in safety and security are taken, according to this source, because the environment remains "meet the schedule or else. And the schedules are tighter than before the Challenger accident...
...collection of concrete animals. He has 20 types of deer alone, ranging in size from a miniature fawn up to the just departed buck, and 18 kinds of frogs. There are also lifelike rabbits, geese, chickens, lambs, foxes, crocodiles, armadillos, toy poodles and blue jays. On a larger scale, Harper features full-size pigs and half-size cows and black bears, which nevertheless weigh about a fifth...
...there is no final proof yet, many astronomers find Elston's circumstantial evidence convincing. Says Patrick McCarthy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley: "This is a very good bet. If they can prove it, it will wipe out a number of theories on the formation of large-scale structure in the universe." Declared Hyron Spinrad, another Berkeley astronomer, more simply: "If true, it's spectacular...