Word: continuum
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...Clinton and Bush represent, to a certain extent, extremes on a continuum. It is the hope of many in this nation to see President Barack H. Obama occupy a middle ground, embodying a healthy marriage of curiosity and conviction. The administration’s decision to make sweeping changes to the federal budget suggested a vigorous defense of an answer he gave on the campaign trail. But other moves, such as the recent nomination of Judge Sonia M. Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, whom most legal analysts do not consider a liberal intellectual heavyweight to counter Justice Antonin G. Scalia...
Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows By Kathleen Collins Continuum, 228 pages...
...cloud of uncertainty looms over the shape of things to come. Experts talk of China's maritime rise in the same continuum as that of the British Royal Navy in the days of Victorian empire, and the U.S. fleet during the Cold War. At present, China's naval capabilities are still that of a regional power - its own state planners aim for the PLA to finally have "risen" only in half a century's time. By then, the world could be very a different place. The Chinese navy could act as a stabilizing force - or a source of conflict that...
Barreling down Balboa Avenue, belching diesel fumes as they bully fancy European sports cars out of the way, the second-hand American school buses that pass for Panama City's public transportation system seem like dinosaurs that took a wrong exit off the time-space continuum...
...both entertaining and provocative.“The Quad” neatly packages a four-year experience into a 2-hour performance. Just as the play began with the fresh optimism of that first year of college, it ends with the relief of a happy, hopeful ending after the continuum of conflicts in the second act. “The Quad” faithfully traces the lives of college students in these formative years, avoiding brash exaggeration that would make the characters merely unrealistic caricatures. The production is easy to view, easy to follow, and easy to digest...