Word: buttoned
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...careful. As evidenced by the reaction to Bill Clinton's Jesse Jackson comments, South Carolina showed that if they are perceived to be blowing the race "dog whistle" it can hurt them, and bad. At least one uncommitted superdelegate in North Carolina said this week that pushing that button could push him away. "I do expect Sen. Obama to be the nominee," Brad Miller, the Congressman from North Carolina's 13th congressional district, told me Monday morning at his campaign office off an underground garage in downtown Raleigh. "And if 'electability' is code for being African American," he said...
...that can hinder academic performance—from dozing off to doodling, surfing the Net is one amongst the many unproductive student behaviors. Students’ learning experiences are undeniably affected by their activities outside the classroom—from partying through the night or to hitting the snooze button instead of making it to a 9 a.m. lecture. Surely, you could get more out of class by not watching “Pleasureman Gunther” videos on YouTube during section, but then again it might also help if you did all the reading. A student?...
...most problematic song (though arguably a success as a musical version of conspicuous consumption). Clocking in at 11 minutes and 11 seconds of monochromatic ambient noise, it soothes like much of the rest of the album, but it’s difficult to resist the fast-forward button after a didactic five minutes leaves listeners with nothing to look forward to beyond six more of the same.“Saturdays=Youth” is a triumph in the way Gonzales probably intended it to be. It’s a fractured, uneven work, with vaguely discernable intentions and vaguely...
Imagine a video of a plane hurtling toward the ground - and then suddenly someone hits the pause button. That may be the best metaphor for the financial disaster that currently is Alitalia, the Italian carrier that is this close to bankruptcy...
...main drama, however, remains that place stuck in mid-air. The 'play' button on the video must soon be pushed. We may soon find out if this dramatic pause has scared both the unions and Berlusconi to see the downside to total disaster - and whether the catastrophe can still be averted...