Word: confounders
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...latest plot seems to have validated the assumption that terrorists would be more likely to try and confound airport security measures by smuggling a bomb on board in pieces and assembling it in mid-flight. The particularly devious innovation of the London plotters was their alleged use of liquid explosives or explosive components, which are easily concealed in many of the items found in most travelers' hand luggage - perfume, hair gel, deodorant, medicines, drinks, toothpaste, lotions, and so on - and are extremely difficult to detect. Metal detectors will obviously miss them. While there have been some "puffer" explosive-detection machines...
...case can be made (a case that can confound and infuriate liberal do-gooders like myself) that by making the economy more efficient and moving money where it leads to higher profit margins and more jobs, investment banking and venture capital work are the most effective ways of serving the country. Perhaps, if approached with a system of priorities that truly places this ethos of service over short-term profits, an occasionally callous and avaricious profession can be turned to do true good...
...more than even the number hauled in by Norway, which simply ignores the moratorium. Next year Japan plans to bag 50 humpbacks, the endangered giants famous for their spectacular breaches and eerie subaqueous songs. Stanford University cetologist Stephen Palumbi says their addition to the scientific catch will confound attempts to monitor poaching through the dna testing of meat, a method that has proved remarkably effective in recent years...
Still, he likes to confound expectations--he wears a cross containing relics of martyred saints, but he can swear like a Quentin Tarantino character--and those who peg him as a reactionary may be surprised to learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia...
...Collins’ clutch play, Harvard had the ball with 36 seconds left and the chance to take the last shot in regulation. Beal held the ball near the Harvard bench before attempting to hand off to Goffredo, but Cornell point guard Graham Dow reached a hand in to confound the exchange, leading to a turnover that set up the wrenching finish.Trailing by three at halftime, Harvard fell behind by eight out of the break before beginning its own comeback. After a layup by Stehle put the Crimson ahead at 46-45 with 14:35 to play, the teams began...