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3811That's it! I think that is the closest we're going to get. Thank you! E-5/20/2002
3810It is tough given your parameters. But, I think this is pretty close: The meansQuahog-5/20/2002
3809Can't be that, because 'the means dictate the end' doesn't meaE-5/20/2002
3808The means <i>denigrate</i> the ends? You're planning on using tLazarus_Long-5/20/2002
3807"Dictate"? "The means dictate the end."Kitskid-5/20/2002
3806Oop! I wrote that wrong. I'm looking for a one-word antonym to 'justify,E-5/20/2002
3805A writer I know is trying to come up with an opposite maxim to "The ends juE-5/20/2002
3804Message 17393081E-4/27/2002
3803dribbleglass.comRaymond Duray-3/6/2002
3802what are you, a human spellcheck? <g> You mean what I know.The Philosopher-2/25/2002
3801(Ennumerable?) Don't you mean "enumerable"?Kitskid-2/25/2002
3800First one is okay. Second requires are. The OED gives a lengthy exposition of The Philosopher-2/24/2002
3799It's one of those "less and fewer" situations. If you have more mThe Philosopher-2/24/2002
3798>>They shouldn't sound okay to you. Yes, more takes a plural verb in ttyc:>-2/24/2002
3797"More" than "5%". Two equal nouns separated by a conjunctiontyc:>-2/24/2002
3796They shouldn't sound okay to you. Yes, more takes a plural verb in that conThe Philosopher-2/24/2002
3795And just what do you claim is the first member of the comparison in that sentencThe Philosopher-2/24/2002
3794Also, I question whether "more" as a noun takes a plural verb. "tyc:>-2/24/2002
3793I wonder... My OED says that "than" is a conjunction .."introducityc:>-2/24/2002
3792Hmmm. I read too quickly. "More" is, indeed, the subject. KarenLane3-2/24/2002
3791Actually, both are correct. In the first sentence, the subject is 8 percent, wThe Philosopher-2/24/2002
3790I think percent is singular. "50% of 1 is .5".... "50% of four tyc:>-2/24/2002
3789From today's Washington Post: <<In Washington, nearly 8 percent of thLane3-2/24/2002
3788Wow. You are so creative and imaginative that I have been rendered speechless, aE-2/19/2002
3787Rosamunde is a witch <b>or</b&gGraystone-2/17/2002
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