Word: numbering
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...international consortium of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada has started small, with just three men. As the station nears completion in five or six years, the number will grow to seven, but not much more than that. Still, NASA and its partners hope it will be enough that the next step will be a permanent outpost on the moon or a trip to Mars...
...estate tax's opponents often claim that family farms and small businesses must be sold to pay the tax. But, like the impact of the tax burden, this problem is not as serious as it sounds. Only a small number of farms and businesses--less than one in 20--even meet the criteria needed to pay the estate tax, and among those who do a series of exceptions allow most of them to avoid paying a tax at all. For instance, owners of farms and small businesses have higher exemption levels, and for tax purposes they are allowed to value...
...showed its mettle in the second quarter, outscoring the Crimson 2-1. Harvard's attack was actually much crisper than it had been in the first frame, as the defense created a fair number of counterattack opportunities...
Experts attribute the disparities to the large number of polling agencies, each of which uses different techniques and voter samples. The basic methods used by the agencies are standard, but there are variables: what questions are asked, when the poll is conducted and how many people are surveyed...
While the record number seems to be a logical explanation for the wide discrepancies between polling agencies, it still does not explain the volatility of individual polling firms over short periods of time...