ficiency

Of course, to scientists in the lab, "ef-ficiency" can mean an unwelcome tide of bean counters.

With Or Without You 2008

Discipline and budgeting, timing and cost ef ficiency—I received all my lessons not in an MBA program or a Fortune 500 company but in the sweat, blisters, and bloodshed of my first twenty-five working years.

Reposition Yourself T.D. Jakes 2007

Relevant to my "TRANSmitter" case may be this observation by McDavid in a footnote to Mencken: "An unfashionable initial stress often appears in individual words in the speech of prominent Americans; e.g., ée-ficiency was often said by President Eisenhower."

languagehat.com: TRAI(T). 2005

“Not life under abnormal conditions, not the disturbance as such, en - genders a disease, rather disease begins with the insuf - ficiency of the regulatory apparatuses” (Virchow [1869], p. 93).

HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

Well now dey's some folks says dey ain't no 'ficiency in prah.

The Gilded Age, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

Well now dey's some folks says dey ain't no 'ficiency in prah.

The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864

This doctrine is particularly insisted on in the case of an en - dorser of the note of a deceased purchaser, at a resale; in which case a second resale has been made, and a considerable de - ficiency has in consequence happened.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

Many Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, and this D-ficiency may put their health at risk.

Food IngredientsFIrst News 2010

Many Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, and this D-ficiency may put their health at risk.

dailyindia.com News Feed 2010

Many Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, and this D-ficiency may put their health at risk.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010