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874. Today, because of improvements in agricultural technology, the same amount of acreage produces twiceas many apples as it did in 1910.

22. A recent national study of the public schools shows that there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, fourtimesas many as there were four years ago.

42. According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly fourtimesas likely as other graduates to plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas.

103. American productivity is declining in relation to Europe’s; the energy expended per unit of production in the United States is as much astwice that expended in West Germany.

356. In 1980 the United States exported twiceas much of its national output of goods as it did in 1970.

393. In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, fourtimesas many Americans were killed aswould later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.

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74. All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to the nation’s recreational areas.

113. Analysts blamed May’s sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather,which was colder and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.

406.In the fall of 1985, only 10 percent of the women entering college planned to major in education, while 28 percent chose business, making it the most popular major for women as well as for men.

477. Like Auden’s, James Merrill’s language is chatty, arch, and conversational—given to complex syntactic flights as well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.

751. The Federalist papers, a strong defense of the United States Constitution as well as an important body of work in political science, represent the handiwork of three different authors.

855. There is growing demand in the state for “initiative and referendum,” a procedure that allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them.

926. While all states face similar industrial waste problems, the predominant industries and the regulatory environment of each state obviously determine the types and amounts of waste produced, as well as the cost of disposal.

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175. Besides yielding such psychological rewards as relief from stress, deep relaxation, if practiced regularly, can strengthen the immune system and produce a host of other physiological benefits.

248. Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol consumption not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate genetic predispositions toward certain diseases.

295. Federally imposed restrictions on how much they may pay small savers have made it difficult for savings banks to compete with such unregulated investment vehicles as money market certificates.

299. Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of them in such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than it was ten years ago.

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400. In such works as his 1889 masterpiece, A Dash for the Timber, Frederic Remington caught the public’s fancy by portraying those moments of conflict that defined the West’s romantic heroes.

437. It appears illogical to some people that West Germany, which bans such seemingly lesser evils as lawn-mowing on Sundays, still has some 4,000 miles of highway with no speed limit.

584. Poor management, outdated technology, competition from overseas, the replacement of steel by such materials asaluminum and fiber-reinforced plastics have all been cited as causes for the decline of the United States steel industry.

587. Proponents of artificial intelligence say they will be able to make computers that can understand English and other human languages, recognize objects, and reason like an expert—computers that will be used for such purposes as diagnosing equipment breakdowns or deciding whether to authorize a loan.

796. The ordinance is intended to force householders to separate such hazardous wastes aspesticides, batteries, fertilizers, and oil-based paints from the general stream of household trash.

932. While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation asallowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

528. Never before in the history of music have musical superstars been able to command such extraordinary fees as they do today.

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43.According to Booker T. Whatley’s recent analysis, planting the same crops as are planted on large farms will lead to economic disaster for the small farmer, who should plan a succession of high-value crops that will provide a year-round cash flow.

312. Because new small businesses are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to them in the same way as to established big businesses.

475. Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.

504. Marketing researchers have found that, because many residents of the Southeast do not have the same ethnic heritage as Northeasterners, the two varieties of commercially prepared coleslaw most popular in New York City and Boston are virtually ignored by consumers in Richmond and Raleigh.

614. Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nile delta and the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.

668. St. John’s, Newfoundland, lies on the same latitude as Paris, France, but in spring St. John’s residents are less likely to be sitting at outdoor cafes than to be bracing themselves against arctic chills, shoveling snow, or seeking shelter from a raging northeast storm.

838. The underlying physical principles that control the midair gyrations of divers and gymnasts are the same as those controlling the body orientation of astronauts in a weightless environment.

878. Trying to learn some of the basics of programming is the same as to tinker with a car when one is a teenager: some people end up going to engineering school, and others, twenty years later, remember nothing of the experience.

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91.Although one link in the chain was demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require the recall of the automobile.

214. Climatic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the weather.

738. The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculptured portrait, the features of which are so unrealistic as to constitute what one scholar calls an “artificial face.”

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151. At the beginning of the year, the city allocated $150 million to cover the increase in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions.

121.As a result of medical advances, many people who might once have died in childhood of such infections as diphtheria, pneumonia, or rheumatic fever now live well into old age.

122.As a result of the continuing decline in the birth rate, fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980’s than did in the 1960’
s and 1970’s, a twenty year period during which people born after the war swelled the ranks of workers.
123.As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now believe that all of the information encoded in the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere three percent of the cell’s DNA.

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277. Europe’s travel industry is suffering as a result of a sluggish economy, a stretch of bad weather, and the chilling effects of persistent terrorist activity.

As a364. In A.D. 391, as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

550. Once common throughout the Western plains, black-footed ferrets are thought to have declined in number as a result of the poisoning of prairie dogs, their prey.

561. One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium

721. The current administration, worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness.

884. Under the new corporate insurance policy, when an employer is charged for damages to a third party wholly or largely as a result of actions by an employee, the employer is entitled to recoup the amount of the damages.

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161.On the basis of growth rates of large modern reptiles such as the Galapagos tortoise and examinations of fossils of juvenile dinosaurs, scientists estimate that the largest dinosaurs probably lived to be between 100 and 200 years old.

189. By offering lower prices and a menu of personal communications options, such as caller identification and voice mail, the new telecommunications company has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced these companies to offer competitive prices.

335. Humans have been damaging the environment for centuries by overcutting trees and farming too intensively, and though some protective measures, such as the establishment of national forests and wildlife sanctuaries, were taken decades ago, great increases in population and in the intensity of industrialization are causing a worldwide ecological crisis.

373. In contrast to true hibernators such as woodchucks and hedgehogs, whose body temperatures drop close to the freezing point during the winter months, bears maintain a nearly normal body temperature throughout their prolonged sleep.

416. In the most common procedure for harvesting forage crops such as alfalfa, as much as 20 percent of the leaf and small-stem material, the most nutritious parts of the plant, shatters and falls to the ground.

449. It seems likely that a number of astronomical phenomena, such as the formation of planetary nebulas, are caused by the interaction of two stars orbiting each other at close range.

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470. Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the amount of energy used by visible equipment, such as lights, that must be turned on and off and underestimate that used by unobtrusive equipment, such as water heaters.

604. Repelled by bodily punishments such as maiming and branding, Quakers suggested the penitentiary as a reform of the penal system.

608. Researchers have questioned the use of costly and experimental diagnostic tests to identify food allergies, such as to milk, that supposedly disrupt normal behavior.

619. Scientific interest in providing suitable habitats for bottom-dwelling animals such as river clams arises not from their importance as a source of human food but from their role as an integral link in the Aquatic food chain.

659. Some bat caves, like honeybee hives, have residents that take on different duties such as defending the entrance, acting as sentinels and sounding a warning at the approach of danger, and scouting outside the cave for new food and roosting sites.

662. Some historians of science have argued that science moves forward not so much because of the insights of great thinkers as because of more mundane developments, such as improved tools and technologies.

681. Teratomas are unusual forms of cancer in that they are composed of tissues such as tooth and bone, tissues not normally found in the organ in which the tumor appears.