Word: beget
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...Desperate times beget desperate measures, and this is in the Hail Mary category.' RICK SEANEY, CEO of Farecompare.com an airline-ticket research site, on American Airlines' decision to charge $15 per checked bag to fight soaring fuel costs...
...tell the nation's beleaguered airlines that they have an image problem. So why has American Airlines decided to charge already unhappy passengers $15 each way for a single checked bag, as it announced Wednesday? "Desperate times beget desperate measures, and this is in the Hail Mary category," says Rick Seaney, CEO of consumer airline ticket research site Farecompare.com...
...While some may deem this reconciliation utopian, what is truly far-fetched is the insistence that violence can beget peace—the assertion that the elimination of “terrorists” is literally achievable. Has recent history not made clear that all the illegitimate wars, all the indiscriminate bombings, all the illegal torture, produce only retaliatory madness? Until progressives can mobilize against policies that see the solution to terror mostly in its more effective application, we are destined to live and relive the barbarity of the present...
...another euphemism: the pretense that a Harvard education is “international.” The notion appears consonant with the College’s diverse student body, as well as the global ambitions of the newly released curriculum. But insofar as a global education is made to beget thinking in global terms, ours has fared poorly...
...control the end product," Linares says. "For semiconductor manufacturing, that means an extremely smooth and flat surface. For the first time, we've done that." Over the next 12 months Apollo plans to build up a generation of mother wafers at least an inch in length that can consistently beget more high-quality diamond slivers, and then to enter the industrial market...