Word: upper
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...growing old is gaining currency mainly because of the rapidly expanding scientific discipline of gerontology. Modern studies of the aging process involve everyone from laboratory researchers examining brain tissue to nutritionists interviewing nonagenarians to physicians specializing | in treating the elderly. The goal of gerontology is not to extend the upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School, "is not on life-span...
Lower percentage assumes presence of 2 million undocumented aliens in the estimated population; upper percentage assumes presence of 4 million undocumented aliens. The census population used in calculating the total population rates is the actual count, including an estimated 2 million undocumented aliens that were counted...
Tuning was keyed in with uncanny accuracy by the brilliant Brian Williams as he soared through the upper reaches of his falsetto on "Get Ready, Get Set." The ever-popular Fiona Anderson backed him on that song, and later sang one of her own, "No Regrets." As always, her technical prowess was dazzling. Her delivery, though, leaned more on gospel than on jazz, and therefore seemed a bit out of place in this venue...
There was a glimmer of support for the President when the Senate voted 51 to 48 in favor of the aid package, although, after the House action, the upper chamber's vote was merely symbolic. Perhaps the best the President can expect is a $10 million package of humanitarian aid that congressional Democrats are cobbling together. But the Administration is hardly enthusiastic about it. "They just want to send food and bandages," says one official. "That's not the kind of help that can keep a fighting force in the field...
...years later, Rather was walking along Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side when, as he told police later, a pair of strange men attacked and beat him. One of them asked the unfathomable question: "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" The incident -- still unexplained -- provided grist for talk-show wisecracks for weeks...