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To put the extent of the work into perspective, the average college (or desk) dictionary, like the Random House Webster, Webster New World, American Heritage , and Collins English dictionaries, contain about 175,000 entries, which translates into approximately 85-90,000 headwords.
The NYT observes that due to changes in the law, the tax reductions favoring extremely small numbers of beneficiaries in the tax bill now on the president's desk are listed there quite explicitly.
Computer technology discourages smoking, advances in interpersonal sensitivity discourage profanity or even loudness, enlightenment in personnel management discourages the proverbial fifth of cheap bourbon in the lower desk drawer.
Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.
Gerth waited until June, two months after his leadoff article, to mention that Clinton's predecessor, Bush, had approved all the waiver applications that reached his desk and that Clinton himself "routinely followed the practice ...