|
|
Since 1986 enrollments of African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanic Americans in full time engineering programs in the United States has steadily increased, while the number of other students who enter the field has fallen.
|
|
|
The technical term "pagination" is a process that leaves editors, instead of printers, assemble the page images that become the metal or plastic plates used in printing.
|
|
PREP2012
|
Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.
|
|
PREP2012
|
Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport.
|
|
|
Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounts to a sum lower than 1 percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-care inflation.
|
|
|
Senator Lasker has proposed legislation requiring that employers should retain all older workers indefinitely or show just cause for dismissal.
|
|
|
Despite protests from some waste-disposal companies, state health officials have ordered the levels of bacteria in seawater at popular beaches to be measured and that the results be published.
|
|
|
By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.
|
|
PREP2012
|
The Coast Guard is conducting tests to see whether pigeons can be trained to help find survivors of wrecks at sea.
|
|
PREP2012
|
The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants.
|
|
|
In June of 1987, The Bridge of Trinquetaille, Vincent van Gogh's view of an iron bridge over the Rhone sold for $20.2 million and it was the second highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
|
|
|
The decision by one of the nation's largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multigovernment lenders to supply the funds.
|
|
PREP07 Test 2
|
The direction in which the Earth and the other solid planets—Mercury, Venus, and Mars—spins were determined from collisions with giant celestial bodies in the early history of the solar system.
|
|
OG18-语文分册
|
Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911,Scott Joplin's ragtime opera＂Treemonisha＂was not produced until 1972,sixty-one years after its completion.
|
|
|
From the time of its defeat by the Germans in 1940 until its liberation in 1944, france was a bitter and divided country；a kind of civil war raged in the Vichy government between those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis with those who opposed them.
|
|
|
Declining values for farm equipment and land,the collateral against which farmers borrow to get through the harvest season, is going to force many lenders to tighten or deny credit this spring.
|
|
|
In the mid-1960's a newly installed radar warning system mistook the.rising of the moon as a massive missile attack by the Soviets.
|
|
|
It is possible that Native Americans originally have migrated to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land that once existed between Siberia and Alaska.
|
|
|
Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight states that still has a sizable wolf population, and where this predator remains the archenemy of cattle and sheep.
|
|
PREP07 Test 1 OG18-语文分册 OG19-语文分册
|
According to some economists,the July decrease in unemployment so that it was the lowest in two years suggests that the gradual improvement in the job market is continuing.
|