Word: amalgamation
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...Thompson: Not really. Basically, it's looking less and less like this collision was an accident and more and more like it stemmed from negligence. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we can see that there was an amalgam of individual mistakes - which on their own might not have amounted to anything, but all together, they create a waterfall effect that ends in disaster...
...overwhelming U.S. boom, the now blossoming eastern side of the Atlantic will continue to thrive. Yet Europe and the U.S. still have deep financial ties. If anyone needed a reminder of the connections between the two economies, it was underscored by last month's announcement from the German-American amalgam DaimlerChrysler that it was cutting 26,000 jobs, though mostly in North America...
...appointment, of course, has been presumptive since the GOP convention, and Powell has been hovering at Bush's shoulder like a guardian angel for as long as Bush has been able to drop the hint. Powell is a minority Republican who talks like a Democrat, a national amalgam, a military man who could have been a unifying Ike but didn't like politics enough to run. He's a perfect combination of the the elder Bush's Gulf War and the younger's "compassionate conservatism," and he's just prickly enough with his adopted party to be believable...
...replaced by robots, or "actoids," and one of them is acting up--showing signs of a human-like sense of humor. In the Manhattan Theatre Club's U.S. premiere of Ayckbourn's West End success, Janie Dee reprises her astonishing London performance as a robot whose emotions are an amalgam of all the bad scenes she's ever played. The play is astonishing too: at once a shrewd satire of TV, a warming love story and a potent meditation on the nature of humanity...
...Throughout these years, besides writing music that he describes as a "beautiful amalgam of Stravinsky and Schoenberg," Schuller followed closely the fascinating developments in jazz. "In those days, you could hear a tremendous amount of jazz on the radio. This was the heyday of the swing era; jazz was the total popular music of the United States...When I first heard [Duke Ellington], I knew right away, and declared that he was just as great as Beethoven. I still stand by that. If you analyze that music, in terms of the quality and the inspiration of the music, you come...