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But the preferred American convention of writing as two words an adverb-adjective combination when the adverb ends in - ly is also violated: British practice calls for widely-spread, closelyrelated (which appear under Athapaskan ), while standard practice in the US would write these as two words, hyphenating only modifying adverbs not ending in - ly : well-known, well-thought-of, easygoing . (These rules change if the combination appears in predicative position.)
USA Today leads with the AFL-CIO's scheduled debate today at its national convention over the union's possible presidential endorsement of either Al Gore or Bill Bradley.
These gaps are represented with a string of 1,000 Ns, following the convention established for the Release 1 genomic sequence [ 12].
The symbols of any writing system have whatever phonetic value its users agree to assign to them, convention and consensus playing a major role.
Though the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 noted and deplored the silence about women in the Declaration of Independence and though nonfeminists have worked toward removing sexism from English, most current activity stems from the women's movement that began in the 1960s.