Word: manifold
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Unfortunately, the flaws in this argument are manifold: the ideal of universal educational opportunity has never been achieved, and many gains during the 1970s were cut back by the Reagan administration. Since 1980, costs for public and private colleges have risen by 40 percent after inflation, while federal student aid has grown by only 3 percent. Moreover, the emphasis of student aid has shifted from grants to loans, which account for 66 percent of all aid, compared to 21 percent...
...today: "I do not hold title to the lands, but I reap every benefit and every injury to them. Believe it or not, you and I are the guardians of these hills. They are God's hills and we are the keepers. More than that, we shall inherit the manifold blessings of the hills. They are our hills...
Though the prospects for profits are hazy at best, the opportunities are manifold: helping modernize Soviet factories, enhancing agricultural production and marketing consumer goods ranging from toothpaste to tires. "The Soviets now realize they need to attract people," says Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead, who closely follows U.S.-Soviet trade. "It would appear the Soviets in the last few months have dramatically changed their attitude...
...crime wave is already spurring an antibusiness backlash, which could lead to a fresh dose of the regulations from which many industries have only recently won freedom. Says Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "I think the pressures on honest men have grown manifold, and they're leading them to mistakes they wouldn't have made before...
...tanks been full of EDC, there would have been nothing left and the ship would have exploded," said Verma, whose crippled ship was anchored yesterday at Dubai for repairs to tanks, crew quarters and port side manifold...