Word: far-flung
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...Multitude" is their word for a whole new kind of political entity, one made up of the entire population of the world in all its infinitely complicated, irreducible variety. But how can we the multitude--a vast, far-flung, inchoate bunch of people--reinvent democracy on a global scale? Hardt and Negri are glad you asked. The answer isn't simple--not like, say, electing some kind of international global parliament. Instead, Multitude insists that the new democracy can and must come not from the top down but from below, from the entirety of the multitude working and acting together...
Headstrong about avoiding the I-banker/consultant pack and charting a more solitary course, I imagined my job—researcher/writer/latte-boy at NBC News—would mean new people and far-flung places...
...kind of turnaround as Boston.” While his Baltimore trip is for nonacademic purposes—Maryland is home to his wife’s family—Glaeser has developed a reputation internationally as a globe-trotting consultant dispensing economic advice to far-flung urban centers...
...showing the organization's 15 old and 10 new member states. But keen-eyed philatelists quickly pointed out that the island that was supposedly Cyprus was of the same shape, and in the same location, as Crete. The postal service said it had used "cartographic license" to squeeze far-flung Cyprus onto...
...children's center, Sunday school meets Fantasyland with a biblical-themed playground. Teens hang out at the student zone's beach cafe. It's all managed at a two-story building resembling a corporate office, where 400 paid staff members and 5,000 volunteers handle the church's far-flung missions, ministries and programs...