Word: circularity
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...Circular A-21, which requires researchers to submit reports detailing their activities before being reimbursed, is "almost impossible to comply with because of the way faculty members divide their time," Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, said Wednesday...
...thousands of questions. How, for instance, did Nude Model Diane Webber's great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...
Bones splintered shattered dissolve in my skin My torso melts, it flows out my shin Open so open, a circular market Cut on my forehead, it glows in the dark...
They fashioned "Dislocation," for example, around a sythesized percussion track whose tone ascended and fell in a circular manner. The music formed itself around this very rhythmic motive, creating the impression that the metallic noise produced the song. The band performed throughout like a well-oiled generator. The whirrs, pops, and clicks all worked toward redefining Ultravox around a Kraftwerkian philosophy...
...Massive change proceeds more as a spiral than a straight line...so experiences that appear to be circular and discouraging in the short run may turn out to be moving in a clear direction in the long run. Those of us who were taught the cheerful American notion that progress is linear and hierarchical, for instance, may have had to learn with pain in the '70s that no worthwhile battle can be fought and won only once...