calculus
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A scruffy young man with a calculus textbook glances up from his homework and says, “Uh-huh. She used to live next to my cousin. What’s the problem?”
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“No. I’m asking about chemistry because you mentioned it was your worst subject. I told you that calculus was mine. Remember?”
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“For me, it was a simple calculus,” Lloyd said.
“It seems for Jews that there is a calculus of the lesser of evils,” she said.
The region’s more recent strategic importance traces to the 1930s when major oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain sparked a new geopolitical calculus about the region.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.