Word: proportionment
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The magnitude and growth trend of our national debt are truly frightening. Over the past 12 years our country's level of indebtedness has increased from $1 trillion to $4 trillion. Much more disturbing is the fact that our total debt as a proportion of gross national product has increased...
As she flies into Washington for the Inauguration, having studied closely the biographies of past First Ladies for guidance, Hillary Clinton may vow not to go to Cabinet meetings and take notes, declare a tablecloth crisis or order up a set of gold-rimmed china. She may carefully find a...
Research suggests that by the age of 18, a child has watched 10 to 15,000 hours of television, and over 200,000 commercials. How much of this television consists of cartoon/advertisements and other junk TV is unclear, but a quick glance at a given day's programming suggests that...
Backlash, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, deals with what Faludi calls the anti-feminist backlash against gains feminists have made over the past decade and a half. The backlash is out of proportion to the small gains women have made, according to Faludi, who cites...
One of the most telling results was that the cancer risk grew in proportion to the strength of the electromagnetic field. Children with constant exposure to the weakest fields, calculated at less than 1 milligauss (about the same that a coffee maker generates when it is brewing), had the lowest...