[00:02.66]shortage

[00:05.63]Chávez faces growing discontent over electricity and water shortages and a sharp currency devaluation

[00:12.84]this month as he heads into legislative elections in September that could reduce his tight rein on the

[00:20.02]Opec nation's congress.

[00:25.98]usage

[00:28.53]While rare in common usage, for nearly two centuries it has appealed to legal writers (and a few others)

[00:36.38]as an antonym of inchoate. In R. S. Donnison Roper’s “Treatise on the Law of Legacies,”…

[00:50.00]voltage

[00:53.17]Siemens just completed work on a $150 million to $200 million high- voltage wire that reduces the loss

[01:02.26]of electricity during transmission from 10 percent to 3 percent.

[01:09.41]accountant

[01:13.45]It is, however, presumptuous to insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists,

[01:21.30]so many businessmen, so many accountants.

[01:26.47]adolescent

[01:28.90]At the start of the 20th century, under-nutrition and childhood infections got in the way. But as diet

[01:36.82]and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch

[01:44.90]and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height.

[01:53.87]amateur

[01:56.67]The growth of specialization in the nineteenth century, with its consequent requirement of a longer,

[02:03.25]more complex training, implied greater problems for amateur participation in science.

[02:13.92]ambassador

[02:17.71]I want to pay tribute to Leah Rabin, a wonderful woman, a dear friend, an ambassador of peace, a woman

[02:26.05]of valor whose "candle goeth not out by night.

[02:32.08]discipline

[02:34.51]Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history

[02:41.47]as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.