Word: crypto
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even if there were,” he wrote, “the damage that would be done to the spirit of this academic community by an investigation by the university aimed at finding a crypto-communist would be far greater than any conceivable harm such a person might...
Whatever is behind female bingeing--conformity, crypto-feminism, ennui--it's hardly a feminist act. Gender equality wouldn't be worth fighting for if all it meant was the opportunity to be as stupid and self-destructive as men can be. Not that 21st century feminism is likely to revert to 19th century prohibitionism. Women no longer seek to eliminate all the dangerous and exciting things that men have historically tried to keep for themselves. But they need to appropriate alcohol on their own terms and with their own biochemistry in mind--weighing the harms and the benefits, and then...
...mutual self-interest that brought Washington and Beijing together back in 1972. The Nixon administration engaged with China not because it believed this would make China a more open society or economy, but because it would outflank their mutual enemy in Moscow. Later, as the crypto-capitalist Deng Xiaoping replaced Mao Zedong and began opening China's markets to the West, the relationship morphed from an alliance of convenience against a mutual foe into a partnership based on trade and investment...
...drama focuses on an "elite" crime-fighting unit in LA. The show, said Zucker, promises "an exciting, diverse team in front of the camera and behind it." Which means a white character, a black character, a Hispanic actor (Jon Seda) playing a guy named "Jake Shaw" and a nerdy crypto-Jewish computer geek (Jarrad Paul, who was outstanding as the screenwriter in Fox's short-lived "Action"). Most important, this looks possibly to be NBC's bid at creating its own "CSI." Hey, the initials won't hurt...
...Rabin's method is new and potentially changes the crypto landscape," he said. "His work is very practical and is a major breakthrough...