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The Wilmot Proviso ? The Missouri Compromise ? Our problems may have begun even earlier: In Massachusetts, prospective teachers recently complained that one reason so many of them fared poorly on a teaching proficiency test was that they were unfairly expected to comprehend a passage from the Federalist Papers --in many ways, the essential gloss on our entire constitutional system.
An article says the two camps can learn from each other: Indies offer character development and plot, while big-budget movies create "a coveted gloss and Zeitgeist energy that cannot be matched in the world of the shoestring budget."
This raises in my mind bonzer [ bonza, bonser , or bonsa ] which first makes its appearance with the gloss that bulwark of Austral Slanguage, or its synonyms boshter and bosker , all three of which are first recorded in 1903 or 1904.
The Act I finale, "La Vie Bohème ," [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP] is a rock gloss on the hoariest of musical comedy staples, the bravura laundry list.
As exposure to each compound has a different risk, we standardized the exposure by multiplying the estimated average annual concentration of each compound by its Unit Risk Estimate (URE) as shown in Equation 1. The URE is the lifetime risk of excess cancer cases predicted to come from continuous exposure to a compound at a concentration of 1 μg/m 3in the air (for more information see definition on the NATA website, http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/nata/gloss1.html.