Word: blip
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...prepares to embark on a state visit to Latin America that will include transit stops in New York and Houston, Chen is readying a turn on the international stage. In Beijing, however, Chen's visit to the U.S. has caused barely a blip. China is "firmly opposed" to the trip, of course, but the government hasn't issued a statement since the transit stops were announced. Indeed, Beijing's position on Chen has been to have no position: the state-run media hasn't yet mentioned him by name. But Chen's anonymity in Beijing is a stark contrast...
...LESBIAN FAMILIES on a billboard. While the folks in Los Angeles are receiving all the attention, the Miami Sol are scratching their heads at the fuss. The Sol team often appears at lesbian bars and is helping sponsor a gay festival in South Beach--with nary a blip on the talk-back radar...
...third, 1970 was a unique year in Harvard grading history, because students were given the option of not taking final exams and having courses graded pass-fail. One would expect that a one-year change in grading policy would cause an upward blip in cumulative grade point averages for four years...
...will come soon enough). No matter how the mail arrives, says Rodger Popkin, president of the American Camping Association and co-owner of Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, "if we're doing our job properly and children are thriving in camp, the news from home is just a blip on their screen...
...Bush's personal mojo, this was also the week Bush's agenda could have used a more agnostic spotlight. With ex-White House counsel Beth Nolan's piano-key smile lighting up CNN for days on end, Bush's two-day, five-state sales tour made barely a blip on the cable-news radar, and when the Pardongate hearings took a break, there was Greenspan before the House for two mornings this week. And besides hogging the airwaves, the Fed chairman has of late rediscovered his gift for burying his soundbites in a pile of qualifiers - just when the Bush...