Word: embeddedness
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The beginnings of Barcelona's feisty sense of autonomy lie embedded deeply within its lexical past. Contrary to popular belief, Catalan is not a bastardized version of Castilian, but a proper language in its own right. When the Romans conquered the Iberian peninsula, as Hughes tells us, they brought with...
How long can this keep up? Technically at least, the recession was supposed to have ended a year ago. But the relentless pace of new layoffs, along with ! the surge in unemployment from 7.5% in May to an eight-year high of 7.8% in June, has mooted the normal distinction...
Judging solely from the bottom line, Perot's record probably would not qualify him for a performance bonus. General Motors -- bloodied, but unbowed -- only now is facing up to the need for far-reaching internal reform. No living MIA has ever been found in Vietnam. Texas enacted some of Perot...
SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT SOME ANImals -- birds, fish, insects -- have tiny natural magnets embedded in their tissues, crystals of a mineral known as magnetite. The suspicion is that magnetite enables these creatures to sense the earth's magnetic field, letting them navigate from one place to another with...
The 1991 highway act does address some of the problems with American road building by giving more emphasis to maintenance and research and development. In part, the government is recognizing the exciting possibilities that truly lie down the road: innovations that go well beyond surface improvements. Initial government contracts are...