Word: blinks
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...best-selling book “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell devoted 12 pages to Banaji’s research on the Implicit Association Test, a methodology created by Banaji’s dissertation advisor, Anthony G. Greenwald, in 1994. The test is designed to measure the strength of automatic association and is an important tool in social psychology today...
...Cleveland Clinic gave Siemionow the green light for the improbable operation, one that involved the transplantation of about 500 sq cm of skin, arteries, veins, nerves, muscles and bony structure, all of which had to be attached with sufficient dexterity to restore the patient's ability to feel, blink, eat, smell, speak and - not incidentally - smile. This was not what doctors call solid-organ transplant; it was a multitissue transplant, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than, say, a heart transplant or a hand graft...
...games of the season—she tallied a goal and an assist on the night—she looked to put a capper on her stellar performance. But her shot went wide, giving Northeastern an opportunity to seal the game on its next attempt. The Huskies did not blink, winning the penalty shootout 4-2.The team was strong to the end, but sometimes, the fates do not align.“We should be able to handle the physical part of going to overtime over and over,” Nichols said. “I think it?...
...Rodgin Cohen, a top banking lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, says being approved for TARP funds is do or die for any bank perceived to have problems. "The consequences are unmistakable, and I don't think we should blink at them," Cohen told the attendees of a banking-industry conference earlier this month. "It is failure within maybe a day, maybe a couple of days. It's hard for me to see how a bank survives if the regulators have said it is not sufficiently viable to be in these [federal assistance] programs...
...scores plummeted on day two, earning the Crimson a ninth-place finish ahead of both Cornell and Penn, the host of the tournament. A standout performance by freshman Mark Pollak anchored the team. With individual scores of 71 and 77, the recruit was the only player not to blink on day one. “My game had been finally turning around, and I was pretty confident going in,” Pollak said. “I kind of had my game going. I had really been struggling around the greens, since the short grasses are different up here...