Word: awkwardnesses
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...There is no Deep Springs equivalent for women, and according to Vanity Fair’s June 2004 piece, the place of women can be awkward. The article emphasized the sexual tension inherent in an environment of empowered young men, making much of allegations that female teachers have had trysts with students in the past...
...migrated to hedge funds, with a much more short-term investment strategy. Years ago it was much more long-term oriented. Now there's much more pressure on public companies to deliver good results every quarter; there's not much room to make a mistake. It's a very awkward balance when you're under pressure to deliver earnings for a quarter and you want to be investing and thinking about the long term strategy for the company...
...have recently had an awkward email encounter with my concentration’s department program administrator, wherein she intimated that I was mentally unfit to write a thesis and outright told me that my “status as an honors joint concentrator is in serious jeopardy.” What’s more, she sent this e-mail to me 24 hours before the first 20 pages of my thesis are due to the department— talk about bad timing. What is an appropriate response? Mail-bombing the Barker Center? Poisoning the tea at the department?...
...forces to move against the Mahdi Army, a step that al-Maliki has resisted so far-and with good reason, since al-Sadr has been al-Maliki's prime source of support in the Iraqi governing coalition. But if the leak of the Hadley memo was some sort of awkward Bush strategy, it failed. Al-Maliki refused to sup with Bush. They breakfasted-and it's possible bread was broken only after the White House agreed not to push on al-Sadr. The body language between the two men was dire. Bush seemed severely ticked off during the press conference...
...DeepStream's pliable digital sensors overcome that limitation. "Instead of being flat and planar, we can mold them into any imaginable shape or topology, so now you can get into very awkward and difficult spaces," says Crosier. Another advantage: the materials are resistant to hazards like high temperatures and toxins...