Word: makeing
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...rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test, nearly 16% more men than women were able to select the right analogy to "mercenary: soldier" (hack: writer...
...vast inland desert, empty until a few weeks ago, is filling with the troops and equipment of 11 Arab and Islamic armies committed to the liberation of Kuwait. On paper they make up a formidable military force: 60,000 Saudis, 10,000 men of the other gulf states, armored divisions from Egypt and Syria, infantry regiments from Bangladesh, Morocco and Pakistan. By joining publicly with the U.S. and its European allies, they have already made their most important contribution by proving that the confrontation with Iraq is not a neocolonial attack on the Arab nation. But if a war begins...
Osteoporosis can be triggered in young women by disturbances in the menstrual cycle, according to a controversial report. -- Scientists make mice more like...
...Michael Durham, the airline's chief financial officer, blames the fuel jolt as the No. 1 problem. "There's very little you can do when a commodity that represents 15% to 20% of your total operating costs goes up by almost 100%. It's a very difficult time to make money...
During 10 years in power, Nicaragua's Sandinista National Liberation Front confiscated millions of dollars worth of privately owned factories, farms and houses for the state. Since their electoral defeat last February, however, some Sandinistas have decided to make money the old-fashioned way: by earning...