The chancellor of California Community Colleges, Thomas Nussbaum, described the measure as "the greatest public commitment to educational opportunity in a quarter century".

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In the last month alone, consumer sentiment, by at least one measure, experienced the greatest monthly plunge since the height of the financial crisis.

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"Senna" channels them through the words and actions of an exceptionally charismatic athlete, a driver who was by any measure one of the greatest of his or any era.

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By any objective measure, Israel's greatest diplomatic challenge for the past three years and two months has been to build an international consensus around the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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This is already beginning to happen in parts of both India and China, where farmers are learning how to measure the water they pump, how to use it to greatest effect and thus how to sustain aquifer levels.

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Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.

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The shameful situation in which the Senate of the United States -- long reputed to be the World's Greatest Deliberative Body -- is effectively denied the opportunity to debate and vote on a measure as important as the American Missile Protection Act of 1998 is most immediately the handiwork of Sen.

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To perhaps the greatest amusement of outsiders, Arthur suggested that some players had unacceptably high numbers of skinfolds, a measure of body-fat percentage and indirectly of fitness.

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