[00:01]humble

[00:03]As a nation, we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures

[00:08]while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could

[00:14]improve people's lives.

[00:18]gamble

[00:21]During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams,

[00:25]a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $175,000.

[00:38]scramble

[00:41]"Our defense, I think, is good enough now to keep us in the game,"

[00:47]Lee said. "We're not going to dominate too many people,

[00:50]but we scramble enough to hold teams to a low enough shooting percentage,

[00:56]and we're taking away easy buckets. So it gives us a chance to win."

[01:04]stumble

[01:07]Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled

[01:13]across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet.

[01:18]He searched it with no success but was attracted

[01:23]by the site's "personal search agent".

[01:28]tumble

[01:30]Temperatures across Britain are set to tumble as low as -6C

[01:38]over the next two days, potentially covering northern England and Scotland

[01:46]in a blanket of snow in the coming week,

[01:50]weather forecasters warned last night.

[01:56]ease

[01:58]The discussion was so prolonged and exhausting that at ease the speakers

[02:04]stopped for refreshments.

[02:08]nasty

[02:12]Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more

[02:16]cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome,

[02:23]or just plain nasty.