interrupt

There are a number of obvious reasons:

women often interrupt their careers for family reasons;

their earnings are, on average, lower than men's;

and they are less likely to have access

to a good-quality pension scheme.

intersection

Senator Harry Reid's comments about Barack Obama's race

are not so different from remarks the president made himself

while navigating the complicated intersection

of race and politics in America during the 2008 campaign.

scissors

While we wait on the ink to dry on the contract,

here is some good work by some good people

that we might have missed while sleeping or wondering if Kurt Warner

and Aaron Rodgers could settle it with rock, paper, scissors.

scrap

Clegg's announcement today is his first overture

to young voters after he included a scaling back of his party's pledge

to scrap tuition fees among 18bn

worth of spending commitments that he jettisoned last week.

scrape

Dean said her father's quick actions saved his family.

He felt the ship scrape the iceberg

and hustled the family out of its third-class quarters

and toward the life boat that would take them to safety.

segregate

For example, you might find that leaders

are supposed to unite people, but a number of them

segregate their subordinates as a result of misinformation.

select

The standardized educational or psychological tests

that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning,

or promoting students, employees, and military personnel

have been the target of recent attacks on books, magazines,

the daily press, and even in Congress.

skyscraper

Such is the frenzy that the Hard Rock Café,

built among vacant lots in 1997,

is now surrounded by skyscrapers-and plans to tear it down

for another high-rise are being debated

as if the Hard Rock were a heritage site.

household

According to the survey, 90% of American households are middle class.

That is because the U.S. is the most powerful country in the world.