Word: blur
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...left, and when I did, my mother said to take lots of pictures and my father said to write down the good things, so I did that too. The point was (they implied) to prevent the country from passing in a blur of bus station lines; the idea being that otherwise, I would soon forget...
...attorneys, who asserts that his client is innocent. "The conduct itself is not illegal ... What they did is done every day in every statehouse in the United States." Sansone has said that Veon's defense team will introduce evidence that the attorney general himself and his staff often blur the lines between campaign work and official duties...
...outfit the place. She now has backing from a few private donors as well as the international NGO Oxfam, but times are still lean. An array of colorful drapes liven up the space, while a staff of local Chinese and South Asian volunteers busy about. Wong is a blur of energy and enthusiasm, rattling off anecdotes from her years of activism. Like when she led dozens of South Asian youth to a school that had refused them admittance because of their poor Chinese and got them enrolled. Or when, in order to win the trust of a group of Nepalese...
...Stephen Phipson, president of Britain-based Smiths Detection, the world's largest maker of full-body scanners, insists that the machines only produce images that show the outlines of the human body, not anatomical parts. "The privacy concerns are valid," he says. "But our software can blur out parts of the body. And the scanners are far less intrusive than the traditional pat down of the body." At the U.S. airports where scanners have been installed, security officers must look at the images in isolated rooms and are not allowed to have any piece of equipment, such as a camera...