Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...results [at the beginning of this campaign], we might have had to scale the goal back," he says...
...much of a student's time this wastes each time he or she has to lock or unlock the door? Seven seconds on average, that's how long (I just timed it); and so if you leave your room 20 times in a day, we're talking on the scale of whole minutes wasted every day. Plus, what if you really need to go to the restroom down the hall? That seven seconds could be the difference between making it and that one time in kindergarten when Johnny made you laugh too hard...
...birds carrying seeds cause cross-pollenation. In fact, says Bjerklie, the commotion in Europe "is as much over economic concerns as it is about health risks" ? GM critics there have voiced concerns that the modifications give unfair advantages to large farmers who can afford the new seeds over small-scale and organic farmers. That's not likely to be so much of an issue in the United States, but don't expect the arguments over GM to die any time soon...
Geller currently receives a salary from the Smithsonian tied to the civil service pay scale. Harvard pays her an additional quarter of a professorial salary, bringing her income to roughly that of a tenured professor. However, Harvard's salary is contingent on her continued employment by the Smithsonian...
Laser surgery is far less expensive than full-scale plastic surgery and thus more accessible to people of every income and social stratum. "It's not just the young and the beautiful or the wealthy any more," says Jenifer Lloyd, a dermatologist in Boardman, Ohio. "I just lasered the wrinkles on an 85-year-old woman. Now she's dating again." Men, who account for about 20% of all cosmetic work, are succumbing too. Stan Madray, 36, who works for an entertainment company in Orlando, Fla., was unhappy with his "chipmunk cheeks that made me look older and worn...