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1 The demand for airplane mechanics is expected to grow about ten percent a year in the next decade, largely because new federal rules calling for major modifications to older planes and because the air-lines are adding hundreds of new jets.
2 In the late seventh century, in a dispute over whether the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, should carry on as the fourth caliph, Muhammad's successor, Islam split into two branches, the Sunnis and the Shiites.
3 Some analysts point out that because people are becoming accustomed to a steady inflation rate of four to five percent, businesses found that they could raise prices according to this amount without thereby provoking strong public reaction.
4 Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.
5 Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state's economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
6 In June of 1989, Princeton Township approved a developer's plans to build 300 houses on a large portion of the 210-acre site of the Battle of Princeton, one of only eight Revolutionary War battlefields that had remained undeveloped.
7 The most favorable locations for the growth of glaciers, rather than being the cold, dry polar regions, would be instead the cool, moist middle latitudes, where there is abundant precipitation and where it is cold enough to allow some snow to accumulate year by year.
8 One of the most powerful driving forces behind recycling is the threat of legislation that would quire companies that they take more responsibility for the disposal of its products.
9 The evolution of the technology of microelectronics over the past decade has been so rapid that it is sometimes called a revolution.
10 Contrary to popular belief, victors in the ancient Greek Olympic Games received cash prizes in addition to their laurel wreaths.
11 The proposed urban development zones do not represent a new principle; it was employed in "Operation Bootstrap" in Puerto Rico.
12 The nation's three military academies have seen a dramatic rise in applications, one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and improved recruiting by the academies.
13 The lack of complete historical records from the mid-to-late 1800's have made some Black inventions difficult to trace to their originators.
14 It is not likely that the competitive imbalance that now exists between Japan with all major industrial nations will be redressed during the foreseeable future. -(A) with all major industrial nations will be redressed during -(B) with all other major industrial nations will be redressed within -(C) with all other major industrial nations will be redressed during -(D) and all major industrial nations will be redressed during +(E) and all other major industrial nations will be redressed within
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15 In the 1950's astronomers were divided between those who believed the universe began in a cosmic explosion (the "big bang") with those who favored the model of an eternal and infinite steady-state universe.
16 Most large companies prefer customized computer software because it can be molded to fit the way a company does business, when off-the-shelf software often requires the company to alter its procedures to fit the software.
17 Stable interest rates on long-term bonds are the financial market's vote of confidence in the Federal Reserve keeping in control of inflation.
18 The Forbidden City in Beijing, from which the emperors ruled by heavenly mandate, was a site which a commoner or foreigner could not enter without any permission, on pain of death.
19 Rather than continue to produce most of the items necessary for subsistence, a growing number of farm families during the first decades of the nineteenth century began to specialize in the production of grain or cotton and to use the cash proceeds from selling their crops for buying necessities.
20 Although all the proceedings of the Communist party conference held in Moscow were not carried live, Soviet audiences have seen a great deal of coverage.
21 In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday, believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made over productive by advances in technology.
22 Under the restructuring, the huge organization that operates the company's basic businesses will be divided into five groups, each with its own executive.
23 The record of the past is always incomplete, and the historian who writes about it inevitably reflects the preoccupations of their own time.
24 Scientists calculated that the asteroid, traveling at 46,000 miles an hour, is on an elliptical path that orbits the Sun once a year and regularly brings it back toward Earth.
25 Promotions, retirements, deaths, and other actions approved by the board of directors at its May meeting will be reported in the July 15 issue of the company paper.
26 The labor agreement permits staff reductions through attrition with increased pension benefits and a special early-retirement program for speeding it up.
27 Water and resource management problems will be at the head of the legislature's list of concerns for the coming session.
28 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.
29 Citing evidence that the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has increased more than seven percent in the last 30 years, many scientists have expressed a fear of destroying forests and continued use of fossil fuels will cause an irreversible shift in Earth's climatic pattern.
30 Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is far more serious than was previously thought, property owners are being advised by authorities to test all dwellings below the third floor for radon gas and to make repairs as needed.
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