Word: fragmentism
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...matter how much Western analysts support Russian economic changes, they have to admit the reformers have not proved themselves as politicians. Yeltsin chose to play the good czar in the December elections, remaining above politics. His lack of leadership allowed the reform forces to fragment and be swamped by such simplistic nationalists as Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Since the election Yeltsin has remained mostly out of sight, and when he appears in public, he seems stiff and slow moving...
...order to confront "the last vestiges of discrimination" left over from past civil rights movements, he was unable to offer any idea of what this agenda should be about. This kind of groping in the dark for reasons to "change," in my opinion, will do far more to fragment the Asian American community than to unite...
...page-long fragment, for example, she creates the voice of a socialite getting back to her roots through gourmet cuisine: "Did I tell you I've been cooking again? I'm really turning my house into a home...When the heat pours out of the oven and I baste the browning bird with all those good juices, it makes me never want to read another issue of Vanity Fair." Bernhard sounds both snotty and heartfelt; her pen drips in a sarcasm so intense it redeems these cliches, rendering them oddly evocative and always hilarious...
After extrapolating the full VIN from the fragment, the FBI contacted the Ford Motor Co., which checked its records and found that the vehicle was a yellow Ford Econoline E-350 van that had been sold to the Ryder Truck Rental Co. in Alabama. Ryder officials turned up the license plate XA70668 and reported that the van had been rented out of the company's Jersey City office. By Wednesday, only three days after the piece of metal had been found on the ramp, the FBI was in contact with Ryder officials in Jersey City, who had no difficulty remembering...
...initial maps under construction on both sides of the Atlantic will not identify every gene on every chromosome. Instead, the maps describe fragments of DNA arranged in the proper order as they would appear on the chromosomes. So far, researchers have identified a few genetic markers on each fragment: for example, the gene for Huntington's disease on a fragment of chromosome 4. In a later phase, they hope to crack the code of each gene -- a code that is written in chemical constituents called base pairs. The great challenge is the sheer size of the task. The human genome...