Word: abstraction
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...including hostage taking, in the near future. The Greek government, its antiterrorist units and foreign intelligence agencies debated whether the text was genuine. Greek police said that its down-to-earth style was suspicious: in the past, the group claimed responsibility for its attacks by issuing dense and intellectually abstract messages...
...others have noted that this is hardly a war in the traditional sense, with a clearly definable enemy. But the uniqueness of the present situation goes further than that. The war on terror is nothing new as a war against America’s enemies or against an abstract “evil.” America has had enemies for well over 200 years now. Evil has been around a lot longer than that. What makes the new opponent so uniquely puzzling and intimidating is that it is a concept. We are fighting a war against creativity. Evil...
...sheet, he wrote off a $1.3 billion pension liability. And he had all salaried workers attend a two-day off-site, at which they were told that "Mazda must change or die." Says Katsumi Yoshitake, a 10-year veteran: "We knew we were in bad shape, but it seemed abstract." At the off-site, "a lot of it was bad news, but it made us feel truly part of the team." To keep up morale, Fields instituted flexible hours, on-site day care and time off to care for a family member. Once a month he would have lunch with...
...Pedersen said the more abstract effects of the discussion on students are apparent...
...shift of emphasis away from disagreement about political principles to “disagreements, ultimately technical, about methods,” about achieving the prosperity and security “without which arguments concerned with fundamental principles and the ends of life are felt to be ‘abstract,’ ‘academic,’ and unrelated to the urgent needs of the hour...