Also, he said, "the cost of marketing a Web site and the cost of free shipping both ways was approximating a store expense," he said.
But the vast crack in his rhetoric was self-evident: in effect, he was approximating the nothing-to-fear approach of Roosevelt, while extolling the fiscal stupidities of Herbert Hoover.
"Sometimes you just want to be where other people aren't," said Ms. Perks, 41 years old, who was approximating achievement of that goal last week when my wife and I met her on horseback at the Tanque Verde Guest Ranch on vacation here in the blazing Sonoran desert of southern Arizona.
The pellets exhibited an instantaneous disintegration upon contact with water, which was indicated by two parameters: the disintegration onset was approximating to 0, and the disintegration time less than 5 s.
The decrease in permeability during the 8 years following the earthquake suggests that the earthquake-induced enhanced permeability in the fault fracture zone was approximating the state before the earthquake during that time.
The dependence on dose was in most cases nonlinear, although in two studies the dependence of certain effects on exposure duration was approximating linearity [ 35, 62].
