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But once the Dodger Stadium gates finally opened, everything was more or less smooth sailing.

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A family spending one-third of its income on food would spend the other two-thirds on everything else, and those proportions more or less worked.

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Are you planning to spend more or less for your Thanksgiving dinner this year?

While a paper’s methodology could be more or less rigorous, and data could be tortured into fitting preconceived conclusions, the falsification of an entire study was extraordinary.

“The answer to how many Englands would fit inside Russia,” she said at last, “is seventy, more or less.”

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