Word: alienable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...edge of the 16,000-acre reservation, a sign boldly warns the FBI, state police and IRS to keep out. "It is a jurisdictional and geographic nightmare," says Ashlaw, who only enters the reservation escorted by the tribal police. This year the border patrol has made 1,800 alien arrests...
...unfounded rumor, started by smugglers, that there will soon be an immigration amnesty for illegals already in the U.S. are likely to cause another surge in crossings. But many Mohawks don't take the problem all that seriously. "After all," says Little Tree, "to us, everyone is an alien...
Ironically, Texans found his Yale background as alien as the Yalies found the Lone Star State resident. In 1978, Bush ran for Congress from Texas against Democrat Kent R. Hance. Hance, a graduate of the University of Texas and of Texas Tech University, looked at Bush's Yale degree and immediately saw his opening...
...more meaning than the typical car commercial. Computers live in our offices and our homes, and everywhere their gray sharp-edged packaging advertises their status as the "other." But computers are flexible beasts, and housed within Ive's "emotional human forms" packaging they could lose some of that alien aloofness. We could be more natural around computers. Perhaps instead of worrying that we will become too much like computers--too unemotional and uninvolved--we should work on making computers more like us. The iBook, at least, is a small step in the right direction...
...Files," then, can be seen as our filtration of mysticism through a more modern lens, with the paranoia of government conspiracy and the growing fears associated with the introduction of technology such as the Internet serving as appropriate '90s touches. Minotaurs and demons and witches have been replaced by alien cloning and microchip implants, but the underlying principles are the same...