Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ACLU Treasurer Robert Letzler said the probability that this configuration of students occurred at random is only .001 percent, smaller than the 5 percent probability usually accepted as statistically random...
...increased more than sevenfold in the past eight years, and 90% of it is consumed in the U.S. Such figures invite the charge that school districts, insurance companies and overstressed families are turning to medication as a quick fix for complicated problems that might be better addressed by smaller classes, psychotherapy or family counseling, or basic changes in the hectic environment that so many American children face every day. And the growing availability of the drug raises the fear of abuse: more teenagers try Ritalin by grinding it up and snorting it for $5 a pill than...
...small poodle," says Chiappe--but 40 ft. to 50 ft. from the tips of their giraffe-like necks to the ends of their long, ground-hugging tails in adulthood. The third team leader, paleontologist Rodolfo Coria of Argentina's Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, identifies them more specifically as titanosaurs, smaller versions of sauropods that were common in the area...
Each year the EPA compiles a catalog of the toxic chemicals discharged into the environment. Congress ordered the accounting after a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing thousands of people--and after the company released a smaller quantity of an equally toxic gas from its plant in Institute, W.Va., less than a year later...
Since the executives at the network--it was ABC, by the way--spent good money for their ad, I figure I should tell them something about the demographics of their one-person target audience. I'm part of the 35-to-50 age group--part of the far smaller age group that turned 44 last May 21, if you must know. I'm currently single, though I'm getting married in December, so my household income should increase considerably. I earn...well, even ABC doesn't need to know what I earn, but if you're looking for a consumer...