Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comparing men and women is like comparing beer and wine. The two are worlds apart. Yet narrowing the differences and balancing the scale were always at the top of the feminist agenda. It's heartening to know that a new level of thinking is coming around--the "femaleist" approach. That's the way to go. Of course, men and women are different. You betcha, and aren't I glad! JUNAINA SAULAT Karachi...
...Oxford team did not stop there. Rushing to meet the needs of World War II, they helped the government set up a network of "minifactories" for penicillin production. Florey also played a crucial role in galvanizing the large-scale production of penicillin by U.S. pharmaceutical companies in the early 1940s. By D-day there was enough penicillin on hand to treat every soldier who needed it. By the end of World War II, it had saved millions of lives...
...later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...
...ponder for a while if asked to name all of their original blockmates. Still more would shudder to think of the blocking groups they once begged to join. Real friendships are not things that one can write down on a list, or classify according to importance on a scale of one to 15, or decide based on a majority vote. While some people may be blessed with a group of friends that lasts a lifetime, most find themselves in circles that constantly shift as their lives change...
...Before Temple), when Nick's Beef and Beer occupied 1688 Mass Ave., Currier, PfoHo and Cabot partyers tired of cramped dorm gatherings could pick from one of only two options for large-scale late-night revelry: the Currier 10-man or the shuttle. But on fateful February 1st, when Temple Bar anointed its first patrons, the shadows of social ostracism were lifted--and in its place a hush fell over the scenic quadrangle. And hush was followed by a mad rush. In a dramatic reenactment, students poured out of their beer can-littered rooms and sprinted towards the redemption...