Word: dispersionism
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It must be admitted that the project's success was considerable. The Jewish people had survived 2,000 years of persecution not just by faith and courage but also by geographic dispersion. Decimated here, they would survive there. Until Hitler. Hitler managed to destroy most everything from the Pyrenees to...
In this case, the tempestuous weather was the culprit -- and then the savior. High winds and 30-ft. waves sent the ship onto the shore and prevented salvage crews from removing the oil. But "the weather had its good sides too," says Madeleine McDonagh, head of the marine-environment group...
The dynamics of the monsoon are so variable and complicated that even if the rains fail this summer, it will be difficult to prove that the oil fires caused the trouble. On the basis of fluctuations in Pacific Ocean temperatures, Jagadish Shukla, director of the University of Maryland's Center...
Q. HUD reportedly received calls from the White House, trying to influence the dispersion of urban development action grants. Did that trouble you?
Deaths by guns tend to be isolated, infrequent in any one community and seemingly random in their dispersion. The inanimate numbers, no matter how often they are repeated, cannot convey the heartbreaking stories that lurk within them. To attach faces to the statistics and find out where and how so...