Word: understood
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...months. They could get away with taking hormones for that period without an increased breast-cancer risk." My mother and I finally reached an agreement. If she was still determined to try alternatives, she would take them in moderation until they were better studied and better understood...
Schroeder: The death tax is probably the single most poorly understood and inconsistently applied tax we've got in this country. It's really a tax on success, which I think is contrary to what the U.S. is all about. I mean, we want people to develop businesses, then pay income taxes as they go along and earn income. Then suddenly, at their death, after they've built this big successful company, Uncle Sam wants to take a piece of it. Family heirs often lose these business legacies because of the high taxes. And most don't do enough estate...
...state understood from the start that providing day care took cash, so welfare parents received vouchers, paid for by state and federal money, covering tuition at about 70% of Tennessee's day-care centers (as much as $85 a week for a child under two). To meet the demand of a welfare population going to work, Tennessee made it relatively easy to open centers, didn't require background checks or training for caregivers before they started work and mandated a higher ratio of children to staff than state experts recommended...
...statesmanlike cease-fire than of a scientific merger. The two teams will try to publish their work simultaneously--but not jointly--in an upcoming issue of a major journal, probably Science. They have agreed that patents are appropriate only at the point where a gene's function is understood...
...semester my friends and I would meet in someone's room, tackle the problem sets, study for midterms and help each other out. Whatever I didn't understand, one of my friends would. And whatever I did understand, I would use to help other people. Whatever none of us understood was usually a typo in the problem...