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.