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USA Today leads with President Clinton's expected proposal today of a $280 million increase in federal funds targeting the enforcement of current gun control laws, a move the paper says is explicitly calculated to meet a recurring NRA criticism: that federal firearms prosecutions have steeply declined under Clinton.
5), whereas the lines for 'perfect' hybridizations would rise steeply and pass closely to the top left hand corner (or values ~1.
Bermuda’s reefs provide excellent dive sites either in the shallows or on the ocean side walls that drop steeply into the colder, deeper water.
Seed plant and mammalian family richness per unit area declines more steeply in the northern hemisphere than in the south (Woodward 1987; Gaston et al.
It is set on the ribbon-thin Water of Leith, whose narrow valley drops steeply here.