Word: scale
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...school committee members say they have to scale back to a few goals, two years after they drew up 11 ambitious objectives for the school system--which ranged from making sure students pass algebra in eighth grade to teaching organizational, research and study skills...
...Indeed, when Weiss first arrived at Harvard in 1994, he was faced with a struggling team that was not very competitive within the conference, let alone on a national scale. Yet since he's been here, the team's rise has been exponential...
...like the Simpsons episode where Homer and Apu scale a mountain, only to find this giant commercial Kwik-E-Mart just sitting at the top," Wang wrote in an e-mail message...
...their 1998 tests, which created the impression they were still battling to perfect the technology. Pakistan's nuclear program is generally assumed to be heavily dependent on Chinese assistance, and it sounds a little far-fetched that Beijing would allow them to develop a nuclear program on that scale...
...missile-defense advocates. It makes little difference, however, to the balance of nuclear terror on the ground in South Asia. Pakistan is a lot smaller than India, both geographically and in population, and would need a larger nuclear capability to annihilate India than vice versa. Such economies of scale, though, may be irrelevant to the language of nuclear deterrence. Says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, "Once you have one or two that you're capable of using, it makes no difference whether you have five...