Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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...
...Once in orbit, though, he proved he is no wallflower, as the onetime demolition expert dropped a small bomb on NASA administrator Daniel Goldin during an orbit-to Earth exchange...
...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...
Instead of discontinuing the service during the times when they are most needed, SafetyWalk should promote the service more, to ensure greater visibility and use by the student body. The program is not well advertised, and small efforts in the area of public relations would go a long way to raise community awareness of the important service it provides...
...inadequate to say that a small group of citizens can represent the views of the entire population," she says...