Word: calling
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Wells then walked third baseman Joe Durkin to stack the sacks with no outs, meriting a call to the bullpen for senior righthander Mike Marcucci...
...laws of the free market will inexorably lead us to the light at the end of some economic and social tunnel is just that--a myth, and a dangerous one at that. We refuse to believe that we must live amidst exploitation, inhumanity, greed, and massive inequality, and call this "irrepressible." We refuse to believe that stopping a sweatshop here and there is the best...
That's a grim warning for people in many of the world's flash points, from Cambodia to Mexico to Bosnia. But it is also a call for increased vigilance from the international community and a move away from the widely held view that tribalism is unavoidable. Visiting Rwanda last month, President Clinton acknowledged that the 1994 bloodletting was "certainly not the result of ancient tribal struggles...All over the world, there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed...
Bizimana refers to Hutu and Tutsi as "small political and economic" groups. "You cannot call them tribes," he says. Yet even if tribalism is an inadequate term, it does speak to an emerging and explosive phenomenon in other parts of the world. Fragmentation, Balkanization, the dissolution of states: at a time of blurry borders and contested nationhood, ethnicity may become the most common--and easiest--organizing principle for nation builders. In the next century, conflagrations of apparent tribalism will not be set off by old ethnic rivalries as much as by contemporary political struggles--struggles that power-hungry leaders will...
...What this means is that cell phone rustlers can now scan the airwaves, remotely tap into a call and even duplicate the cell phone's digital ID at will. As Marc Briceno, who organized the code-cracking, puts it: "We can clone the phones." What was the crypto technology's fatal weakness? Too much secrecy...