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[00:01]profit

[00:02]The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University

[00:06]in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes

[00:11]heavy reading for publishers who have, so far, made

[00:16]handsome profits.

[00:19]benefit

[00:21]Examples of benefits or costs of the current

[00:24]concentration wave are scanty.

[00:28]convert

[00:30]Students wanting more information can go to a website

[00:33]showing energy consumption dorm by dorm. It even lets

[00:38]users convert kilowatt-hours into the resulting CO2 and

[00:42]mercury emissions.

[00:47]fluctuat

[00:49]Over the last three years, however, the once inexorable

[00:53]increase has begun to fluctuate from year to year, according

[00:57]to the Health Survey for England, with some evidence of a

[01:01]decline since 2004.

[01:05]modify

[01:07]After many years of development, biologists have learned

[01:10]how to modify nature's DNA recognition system into a

[01:15]general system for manipulating genes.

[01:20]appropriate

[01:23]If you are part of the group which you are addressing,

[01:27]you will be in a position to know the experiences and

[01:30]problems which are common to all of you and it'll be

[01:34]appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the

[01:37]inedible canteen food or...

[01:42]apt

[01:43]These days, it's ordinary middle-class Americans, not

[01:47]a marginalized underclass or high-stakes gamblers, who

[01:52]are most apt to experience financial failure.