Word: flatness
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First, we plan to keep all faculty and non-union staff salaries flat next year. Union staff have a contract with the University, which has been negotiated with the central administration...
...wanted to.” The “you” here seems clear. Kanye and his fiancée called the whole thing off last summer, and this is his “Sea Change.” That titular heartbreak inspired the wounded but flat “Heartless” and also “Paranoid,” where an insouciant-in-spite-of-it Kanye robo-raps over melted-butter synths and a soulful, multi-tracked hook. The loss that pervades “808s” also stems from the recent death...
...other hand, who ever aired a commercial linking baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and washing machines? When were you ever told, "It's not just your flat-screen TV. It's your freedom"? This is not an argument for the bailout. But it is to say that when the country turns away from you as the maker of a symbol--well, it feels personal...
...think of your iPhone or Nintendo DS as just a phone or gaming device, respectively, but both have speedy processors and lovely displays that make them nifty interactive cookbooks. Even T-Mobile's Google phone has a video cooking program that makes recipes on paper feel as flat as day-old pancakes...
...poor Indians but also for middle-class ones, like R.K. Sachdev, a retired civil servant who lives with his wife in an upscale development in the city's southwest. "Every morning when I get up, my main worry is water," his wife Kusum says. Near the entrance to their flat, they keep a 265-gal. storage tank--locked to prevent theft. The couple are awake by 6:30 a.m. to ensure that the municipal supply is running, and they use an ultraviolet filter to purify water intended for drinking or cooking because contamination is constant...