routine
Half of those of the same age from routine occupations
have under 150,000, and a tenth have less than 8,000 with which
to face retirement-although that retirement is likely to be shorter.
saucer
I figured I would move them to the shade
and give them a little saucer of water.Then I'd watch them
chirp gratefully and fly off to live happily ever after.
senior
Claire C.Gordon,senior anthropologist at the Army Research Center
in Natick, Mass., ensures that 90 percent of the uniforms
and workstations fit recruits without alteration.
soothe
For the first time since he began to vacation at Bühlerhohe
six years ago, its charms failed to soothe
the 80-year-old Chancellor's troubled spirits.
sexually
In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality,
researchers found that more than 40% of adolescents
had had intercourse before talking to their parents about safe sex,
birth control or sexually transmitted diseases.
shutter
Its newly whitewashed breezeblock walls, tall steel shutters
and curving ceiling are Victorian, hospital-like,
it is a lone miniature fortress on the outskirts.
stereotype
"I don't buy the stereotype that Neanderthals were dumb,"
says Henry Harpending, a leading researcher
on the genetics of intelligence.
stratum
A Clarkson University chemist who has studied the outer layer of skin,
the stratum corneum, has challenged some assumptions about skin and
skin-care products and may have developed a new way to keep skin soft.
nonsense
A: I was told that you skipped class this morning, right?
B: Who said such nonsense?