Word: automaticism
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You can't really blame companies for watching our Web habits, since 45% of us admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary.com and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day on MySpace.com...
Perhaps it will come to that. The fighting escalated Monday, forcing U.N. peacekeepers to evacuate a group of foreign diplomats who had arrived in Bemba's compound for a meeting and found themselves pinned down by artillery fire. On Tuesday morning, according to Reuters, automatic weapons fire ripped through the...
You're not seeing double. Lech Kaczynski, far left, is the President of Poland, and he recently chose his twin brother Jaroslaw to serve as Prime Minister. Critics cried nepotism. But naming relatives to positions of power isn't new--and in monarchies, it can be automatic. Even in lands...
They scuttled everywhere, a hundred, two hundred, more. They flowed from the doors and windows and swarmed along the rooftops and into the street, and the AK-47s bucked in their hands as they fired on full-automatic at the slow-moving trucks. The Iraqis, most of them in loose...
“In truth, there is no such thing as a growth industry,” he wrote. “Industries that assume themselves to be riding some automatic growth escalator invariably descend into stagnation.”