Word: disconnecter
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...This disconnect causes divided opinion, Kagan said...
...disconnect? In part, it has to do with familiar pressures: fear of malpractice suits; potential damage to a hard-earned reputation; the awkwardness of admitting you were wrong. Indeed, doctors will tell you they are emotionally devastated by their mistakes and wish they could be more open with their patients...
...with the problems of war; it takes the audacity to make bigger claims about the purpose of a liberal arts education. As we read British war poetry to learn about life in World War I trenches, or the novels of Virginia Woolf to speak blithely about the sense of disconnect and restlessness of the era that preceded World War II, in fifty years, what will this generation of war poems and how they were read tell us about...
...This disconnect between reality and perception can be traced to the way the various arms of government have been managed. Though President Bush has been consistent in his speeches, the Department of Defense and the State Department have often failed to agree upon key issues of policy—or have been so ambiguous as to seem contradictory. At one point, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell announced on NBC that the administration was “working for a peaceful resolution in Iraq” only two days after Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld stated on CNN that...
...their realism, they don’t carry gas masks. One of the main arguments for regime change is that Saddam Hussein is developing weapons of mass destruction, but these replica soldiers seem to deny that reality. They show the disconnect between the upcoming war with Iraq and the representation of that war in the world of toys...