Word: fleetingness
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It's taken a while, but Europe's leaders have begun to recognize the need for labor reforms along lines familiar in the U.S. They have started to talk about promoting lifelong learning, lowering taxes on labor and increasing the gap between what a person gets on welfare vs. on...
These addenda to my interviews with Epps never lasted more than five minutes. To a lowly sophomore at the College though, those five minutes represented intimate access to administrators so busy meeting with each other that they were often too busy to meet with their students. But how many of...
Just as internecine conflicts have risen while interstate wars have declined, so subnational terror may increase as traditional nuclear threats wane. Monitoring and deterring states are hardly easy, but they pale in difficulty compared with the task of monitoring and deterring obscure and fleeting groups and individuals. Not everyone in...
It takes patience to spot the fleeting satellites skimming across the night sky plus a certain skill at celestial mechanics to divine an orbit from these observations. But Molczan and his Web cronies have become highly proficient. Russell Eberst of Edinburgh, Scotland, has made some 170,000 orbital observations over...
The play is one of the greatest literary works written, but you wouldn't know it from Hamlet in the year 2000. Despite some fleeting high points, you might as well add "out of control" to Almereyda's acknowledgment the film was done "fast and cheap." The subject matter requires...