Word: dissimilarities
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...wonder if the lesson of Churchill now haunts the office of Bush political strategist Karl Rove. For something not completely dissimilar seems to be happening to George W. Bush. Since just after the capture of Saddam, Bush's ratings have been slumping. And this is less surprising than it appears. The paradox of the war against terrorism is that the more the President succeeds, the more politically vulnerable he gets. The fewer the terrorist incidents, the more remote the fear, the less necessary the war seems and the more dispensable the war President appears. If he responds to this...
...experience which culminated in the college application, which came replete with the opportunity to describe our plans for world peace in 50 words or less à la Miss Congeniality. And come to think of it, beauty pageants, college applications and online social networks aren’t exactly dissimilar as far as knowingly superficial yet nonetheless nail-biting contests of social acceptance go. Now that we’re here at college, the practice of scheduling our days into red-penned oblivion means that for better or worse, our activities and consumption patterns have become a shorthand...
While those programs seem completely dissimilar and are hard to imagine working in unison at first glance, the final product is simple—an aggressive defense that brings the pressure straight at an opposing offense...
...armed intifada, who maintains close ties with many European, Arab and even some Israeli leaders (including Sharon's former foreign minister, Shimon Peres). He's not exactly a toady of Yasser Arafat, having clashed publicly with him on previous occasions - in many ways, Qureia's political pedigree is not dissimilar from that of Abbas, except that his personal relationship with Arafat is far stronger. But the question of Arafat is political rather than personal. Qureia made clear on Monday that he'd only take the job if the U.S. was ready to back him more vigorously than it had done...
...smooth sailing. As any boatsman knows, the moment something goes into seawater it starts corroding, and soon becomes covered in barnacles and weed. The THG engineers are working on several ideas to combat corrosion, including protective coatings and cathodic protection - attracting corrosive chemicals to electrically charged plates of a dissimilar metal, known as sacrificial anodes, by running a weak electric current through the framework. The blades themselves will be cleaned with every rotation, to avoid a build-up of animal and plant life. Even with its unresolved issues, the system is a huge improvement over past methods of harnessing tidal...