Word: circularity
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...This is the greatest university in the world, in the greatest crumbling democracy in history, and this is the worst microphone I've ever seen," he quipped as he tried with difficulty to fit his head through the circular wire holding the microphone...
...Ever After, Swift has managed the feat again, devising a hypnotically complex examination set amid the circular staircases and false fronts of a strange man's brain. The monologist is Bill Unwin, 52, an honorary fellow of a Cambridge college who begins his tale with "These are, I should warn you, the words of a dead man." Three weeks earlier, he was rescued from "attempted self-slaughter." Now, immured in his unreal world, he recalls, simultaneously, his boyhood in Paris, his discovery of the diary of a 19th century forebear, his life as the husband of an actress...
...long ago, the most sophisticated piece of technology in most food stores was the produce scale. A grocer's idea of mass marketing was the weekly circular. Growth was taken for granted. But the nation's 31,000 supermarkets today face a different world. After expanding more than 5% a year during the 1980s, they have seen growth slowing since 1989. Last year sales grew only 2%, to $376 billion, largely because of the recession. Now profits are being squeezed more than the Charmin as stores struggle to cope with mounting takeover debt. Six of the top 12 supermarkets, including...
...much momentum that he can finish off any rivals who might survive that blitz in the Illinois primary on March 17. Going further still, many analysts believe Clinton is the Democrat most likely to beat George Bush in November -- which, in a fine example of circular reasoning, is precisely why they say he has become the front runner...
Over the next few months, four drug companies will introduce similar versions of the transdermal nicotine patch, a palm-size circular envelope that, when applied to the upper arm or back every 24 hours, releases a steady stream of nicotine into the blood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association found that the patch, when administered with proper counseling, doubled the odds that smokers will successfully quit over a six-month period. "It's a major breakthrough in medicine by any measure. It could save thousands of lives," said Dr. Jack Henningfield, chief of clinical...