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While the rate at which absolute global sea level is rising may seem _______, it has been far from an incidental factor in human history.
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Age data from meteorites suggests that, in contrast to the relatively ________ pace of planetary evolution we are witnessing today, the first ten million years or so of our solar system history were extremely eventful.
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A recent survey of 120 United States corporations found that a third of employees in blue-chip corporations wrote poorly in their electronic mail. Millions of these (i)________ e-mail messages are clogging computers by setting off requests for (ii)________, and many of the requests, in turn, are also (iii)________ written, resulting in whole cycles of confusion.
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Because Earth' s atmosphere distorts astronomical observations, whatever tends to _______ its influence is dismaying to the astronomer.
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