Word: blip
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...reversal.” The dramatic fall in women’s acceptances came even though the fraction of tenure-track offers to women rose slightly, to 39 percent, last academic year.“It’s hard to know whether this is just a one-year blip or whatever,” Martin, the Dillon professor of international affairs, said in a phone interview. “All this shows is that of the offers made last year to men and women, women accepted at a much lower rate than the men.”Harvard...
...court cases some predicted have materialized. Democrats, beset by their own ethics scandals in West Virginia and Louisiana, have all but abandoned attempts to nationalize corruption as an issue. Even last week's revelation that Abramoff had 82 contacts with Bush adviser Karl Rove registered barely a blip on the capital's political seismograph...
...just the latest battle in a campaign to make the acknowledgment of American deaths in the war a traitorous act, as when conservatives assailed Ted Koppel for reading the names of war dead on Nightline in 2004. And it raises a question more important than a midsummer political blip: Why, after more than three years, are images of coffins returning from a war controversial...
...cinema in its glory days. Then there were the boulevard comedies, like La Cage aux Folles and Three Men and a Baby, that got remade by Hollywood. After that they retreated into austerity, into the perfunctory embrace of minimalism. And now... well, frankly, now French films are hardly a blip on Americans' cultural radar, so remote from our concerns that we didn't even realize we were ignoring them...
...Interstate Highway System sprawl across the continent like some outsized Rorschach pattern. These multi-laned, guard-rail-clad corridors by now seem timeless, like pre-Cambrian mountains bolted to the landscape. So it's hard to believe that America's freeway system turns 50 this summer - a chronological blip on the tectonic plates too slight for a spectrometer, but in the life of our republic, a golden anniversary...