Word: actualizations
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...1990s, plenty of other banks tried to woo customers to the Web, but ING Direct stood out with its cheeky and pervasive marketing ("Money doesn't grow on fees," says one orange-colored ad) and commitment to customer service. When customers call the toll-free number, a person--an actual person in Los Angeles, Minnesota or Delaware, not an automated menu, not an operator halfway around the world--picks up the phone...
...social revolution). We still argue about it, but the whole spectrum of debate has moved left. A right-wing thug like Tom DeLay or Newt Gingrich probably has more advanced views about homosexuals than dainty liberals of the past century like Adlai Stevenson or Hubert Humphrey. And whatever the actual views, public expressions of overt homophobia are now unacceptable from any national politician...
...processing power of 500 Xboxes and does everything the same model aircraft would do. Being able to safely navigate through low visibility and a ceiling of 800 ft. or to land smoothly after a fire in the left wing's engine prepares pilots for their first experience piloting an actual aircraft, which could be loaded with passengers...
...with Iraq. Furthermore, the President's speech was based on a simplistic vision of America's role in the world, one firmly rooted in American infallibility. And finally, there was a fundamental mismatch between the grandness of Bush's oratory and his unwillingness to summon the nation to an actual war footing, in which real sacrifice was required. "I think the American people are sacrificing now," the President said. "I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before...
...final word on foreign policy: beware those candidates who speak glowingly, uncritically about multilateralism. Clearly, a new era of international cooperation is necessary, given the rise of viral nonstate threats like terrorism, global warming, transnational criminal gangs and corporate powers, and actual viruses like hiv. But the failure of our NATO allies to fulfill their military quotas in Afghanistan raises a real question about which if any countries will be ready to stand with the U.S. when military action is necessary-a difficult problem for the next President...