Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible to stop a movement that's spread by word of mouth and whose basic manifestation is a regime of exercise and meditation," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Security services can monitor small networks of dissidents, but they simply don't have enough people to monitor something of this scale...
...scale of industrial pollutants has changed the chemical makeup of the world," he said. "All her children are born at risk. The persistent pollutants that are found even in breast milk present a challenge to children and therefore to all of humanity...
These changes were made with the intent of "respecting the neighborhood scale," Power says...
...full-scale personal attack. Behind the scenes last week, congressional Republicans were zipping faxes to each other labeling Senator John McCain a hypocrite: here he was, they said, championing campaign-finance reform while taking money from those with business before the Commerce Committee he chairs. And they had the list to prove it! Software companies, cable companies, phone companies, airlines! Rivals also whispered darkly that McCain has an uncontrollable temper. Message: too loco to be President. McCain defended himself against the hypocrisy charge--"Who is corrupted by this system? All of us are corrupted," he told his colleagues...
...below that of peer schools in some other suburbs in the county, which are luring some of the best teachers and prospects away from Webster. Just a month ago, a 14-day job action, in which teachers refused to participate in after-school activities to protest their paltry pay scale, ended with a tentative agreement that earmarks $5 million more for teacher salaries over the next three years...