Word: exceptionalism
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...those people who sit around rooting for product recalls. That's because those people don't exist. But I got excited when Toyota recalled the 2010 Prius. It's not that I dislike the Prius. My lovely wife Cassandra has one, and it is an excellent vehicle. Except for its need to constantly tell you how excellent it is. There's a screen in the center of the dashboard with an animation that shows how much energy the car is recycling as you drive it. If one of your employees were really efficient but throughout the day kept standing...
...don’t see any argument against [student group-initiated programming]," said Mary K.B. Cox ’10, former president of the IOP Student Advisory Committee. "It wouldn’t cost the university anything except letting people stay in their own rooms and feeding them...
...Times bosses hope, staved off - by the recent announcement that next year the paper will begin charging for online access. The Times is possibly the most authoritative paper in the world and the most influential online, with 17 million monthly readers. It's done well in most media - except the print medium that's green and is issued by the U.S. Mint...
...personal relationship, and we feel that homophobia in the military will begin to dissipate as soon as soldiers realize that some of their companions—the ones they have sworn to protect—are homosexual. When they see that their comrades are the same in every way except for their newly announced sexual orientation, hopefully they will become more accepting of homosexuality...
...many Republican policy initiatives in the past. I supported the Republican universal health care plan in 1993 (which Obama's current proposal resembles). I've supported lots of Republican urban-policy ideas, especially when it comes to education. I think the realism deployed overseas by Presidents like Eisenhower, Nixon (except for Vietnam) and Bush the Elder is the wisest foreign policy on offer. But the current Republican Party is about none of these. It is about tactical political gain to the exclusion of all else...