Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bold enough," says TIME Washington correspondent John F. Dickerson. Bradley's proposal, which covers a wide range of services, including child and health care, has been criticized for its vagueness as to how exactly the money would be divided. Now Gore has trumped him both in scale and in detail...
...Rocker offered something of an apology, which opened with the statement "My emotions fuel my competitive zeal. I have gone way too far in my competitive zeal." Huh? Short of a full-scale apology for his remarks about foreigners, it's hard to imagine Rocker sharing any sort of rapport next year with the man who'll be calling his pitches - Puerto Rico native Javy Lopez...
...explaining, "Because the Western calendar starts with Year 1, and not Year 0, the 21st Century and the Third Millennium do not begin until January 1, 2001. Though some people have great difficulty in grasping this, there's a very simple analogy which should appeal to everyone. If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?" Clarke is right. No one likes to be overcharged...
...first time, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) made these personalized gateways to the Internet accessible for full-scale testing yesterday. The portals' most prominent feature is an on-line version of a pocket day planner...
That led to clashes with overseas regulators, who have long suspected the company of attempting to Coca-Colonize the planet. In one confrontation last spring, the European Community forced Coke to scale back its $1.85 billion purchase of the foreign rights to Cadbury Schweppes beverage brands, which prevented the company from marketing Crush, Dr Pepper and Canada Dry in Europe. That took the fizz out of one-quarter of the company's global sales...