Word: scaled
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...servings at Baskin Robbins are some of the most generous. And at $1.98 a scoop, the price is at the low end of the scale...
...well-off Vermont towns like Dorset, where the property-tax rate will go up nearly 35[cents] per $100 of property value, Act 60 has been met with fury and defiance. The elementary school principal quit when she was forced to let teachers go and scale back art and music classes. Last year the Inn at Willow Pond, a major corporate conference center, gave $25,000 to charity. This year, when the charities called, "we told 'em to call Montpelier--all that money went to Act 60 taxes," says owner Ron Bauer. Even angrier are affluent parents who moved...
Still, something may be better than nothing, and last week the Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to test a less-than-perfect AIDS vaccine--the first approved for wide-scale human trials. The new vaccine, AIDSVAX, developed by a company based in San Francisco called VaxGen, contains snippets of two strains of HIV yet has proved safe. It will be tested on healthy but high-risk subjects--5,000 North Americans and then, if Thailand approves, 2,500 Thais. The trials will take at least four years to complete...
...epitome of "degenerate art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, and scarcely received a word of criticism for it, even in cold war America...
...sidewalks, no more bustling public squares, no more untidy neighborhoods. People would live in hygienic, regimented high-rise towers, set far apart in a parklike landscape. This rational city would be separated into discrete zones for working, living and leisure. Above all, everything should be done on a big scale--big buildings, big open spaces, big urban highways...