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The problem is “compounded by immigration rates plummeting,” she added.

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It finds volatile organic compounds in the breath, detectable in cancer patients even at the early stages of disease, it said.

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Paladino says a lesson on the power of compounding returns in a college economics class set him on his path to investing.

The uncertainty is compounded by a government shutdown that has delayed key employment reports, depriving policymakers of data that could help resolve disagreements between meetings.

The compound had been "hiding in plain sight" as an intermediate chemical in the natural process that produces the known antibiotic methylenomycin A.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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