Word: amoeba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes of the film, even before Louise gets home from work, Sophie ,without any sort of guidance in her vapid, drugfilled life, finds a beacon in Johnny and his deft tongue, both in and out of bed. Johnny sees her as another living being, only existing because some amoeba was able to evolve into a frog that crawled out of the water and eventually became a primate which can now speak all of his urges, including sexual. Needless to say, he doesn't care about her feelings, he saw the act as an exercise of the libibo that must...
...most recent attempt to redistrict the state of Louisiana, several of the eight districts wiggled and wobbled, extending amoeba-like pseudopods in all directions in attempts to corral voters. Of course, these voters had to meet certain demographic characteristics. One district in the central part of the state wandered in every compass direction and, even worse, wasn't even contiguous. In fairness, Texas, North Carolina and Massachusetts had similarly strange boundaries...
PARKINSONISM The tendency of government bureaucracies to grow inexorably larger led C. Northcote Parkinson to formulate his famous law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." In the U.S. this tendency takes the form of an amoeba-like multiplication of departments and agencies. Is a department or agency obsolete (some are still operating under directives signed by President Theodore Roosevelt)? Create a new one to do some of the same jobs. Does a new problem arise? Set up another new agency. Says Robert Stone, the project director for Gore: "As a rule, virtually any task...
...post-cold war world. One is the move toward uniting once jealous sovereignties in economic groupings that also have political ties, like the 12-nation European Community. The contrasting trend is toward splitting up existing states into smaller ethnic nations, some of which then go on to divide amoeba-like into ever smaller pieces. Moldova conceivably might split in three: the Gagauz, a 150,000-member clan of Turkish Muslims, have proclaimed autonomy and appealed to Turkey for protection...
...faculty has found a man who comparesthe FAS budget to an amoeba, and who presentedFaculty Council members with sunglasses at the endof the year...