Word: drift
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Thus, at a time when I should be consumed with acquiring the wit of Maureen Dowd, the political-savvy of Mary Matlin and the resiliency of Hillary, I instead find myself preoccupied with answering the pop-culture queries of Carrie Bradshaw. When my thoughts drift to interviews inevitably I am left with but one damning interrogatory gnawing at my brain: Despite strides in gender equality is it really true that what’s below a woman’s waist is still more important that what’s coming out of her mouth...
...truly effective airport security, says Gritta, is eliminating the human factor altogether. No matter how well trained or well-paid you are, if you?re sitting at a scanning station for more than an hour at a time, you?re probably going to drift off occasionally. "But if there?s a way to automate the whole process, with fingerprint recognition techniques or highly sophisticated scanners," says Gritta, "we?d be a lot better...
...however, have carved out a new mold for themselves as Instant Gratification Machines of sorts, anticipating and catering to the public’s wants. And, until very recently, these two areas of the industry, the small-scale specialized press and the large-scale mainstream press, seemed destined to drift further apart...
...plate with runners on first and second in the bottom of the seventh, Alan D. Camp ’04 hit into a textbook 6-4-3 double play, if you get my drift...
...Lugar may have to make due with its pre-attack allotment, the grim events of the past three weeks have cast the 10-year-old program in a new light. This time around, there is a renewed sense of purpose: No one wants to see a disillusioned Ukrainian biochemist drift into the wrong laboratory...