Word: elasticized
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For one of Australia's pre-eminent men of letters, Rodney Hall travels lightly. Look into his black shoulder bag and you'll simply find a 3B pencil fixed to an octavo notebook with an elastic band. These days it's all the writer needs for his mobile office, as...
While the new Afghan recruits are often fearless fighters - nearly three decades of continuous war has instilled a stoic acceptance of pain and privation that would hobble most modern militaries - few are prepared for the discipline required for service in a regular army. One U.S. drill sergeant wryly recognizes that...
“Advertisements are so elastic these days,” she said. “What about infomercials? What about press releases?”
This policy reflects the theory that a profile is not merely an elastic document, but a living extension of a being, something like a finger or a toe, which must die when the pulse stops.
As Baylor has noted, this is certainly unique compared to the old method of trying to predict what people would do by which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions...