Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They've had a lot of debates about that recently. In the old days, it was the empire that defined Britain. It didn't have to explain itself because it knew who it was and it felt superior to every other country in the world. With the loss of the empire, its ego took a huge battering and there was never any equivalent to help cement the people together and give them an identity...
...always felt that the horror genre was one in which you could do extreme, intense things that maybe would be a little hard to take if it weren't for the genre protecting you - like a viral coating, but the DNA inside is very potent. [The Fly] was a story that if you did it straight, would never get made. Because it's basically: two eccentric but beautiful people meet each other, fall in love, one of them gets a hideous wasting disease, the other watches and eventually helps him commit suicide - end of story. It's like, hey, high...
...Your issue should have been titled "Our Tribute to Barack Obama." I especially enjoyed the "Five Faces" story. Yes, he's everything: healer, novice, radical, the future! I felt like I was watching an infomercial for OxyClean stain remover. Karl Koenig, Appleton, Wisconsin...
...evening, the elephant in the room was the elephant not in the room. Bush's political influence was felt in the frank positioning of the GOP as the God Party - even more than in past conventions, speakers were free with Scripture citations, religious exhortations and mentions of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Other Republicans received video tributes - Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and, of course, Ronald Reagan. There was a film and abundant praise for the president's father, former President George H.W. Bush, whose appearance in the hall with wife Barbara brought the drowsy crowd of delegates to its feet. They...
...SEZs to make them more effective. These zones work best, Ahya says, when they are large enough, and have extensive enough infrastructure, to attract a significant number of companies, which then grow and attract more. And it's the impact of that missed opportunity that will be felt long after the first Nano rolls off the factory floor - wherever that happens...