Word: fullness
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...there are already doubts about whether a 10-year bureaucratic plan can really turn the E.U. economy around. "These strategies are full of beautiful but nebulous words," says Jacques Pelkmans, a senior research fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank. "We shouldn't expect Chinese growth rates, and we should not raise hopes we cannot meet...
Every point on the planet takes the same 24 hours or so to complete a single rotation around Earth's north-south axis, but some points have to move faster than others to spin the full 360° by the one-day deadline. That's because some parts of the planet are much bigger than others, at least in circumference. The Earth's equator is 24,901 miles around. The perimeter of the Arctic Circle, by contrast, is just 9,945 miles, and if you stand five feet from the North Pole, the circumference you inscribe as the Earth rotates...
...ruin: “Sylvie Tanner, looming naked before him, perfectly alive and beautiful, her skin aglow with a pure unrivaled shimmer…would tuck her fingers beneath her fine skin and then, with no effort at all, no pain, peel it off as if it were a full-length glove. She’d do the same with the other arm, and then start in with her torso, pull it down with a terrible measure, down over her breasts, her belly, slowly skinning herself and revealing to him not blood and tissue but the charred ruins...
...investigation into these abuses. It’s when nonfiction films forget that they owe the audience a narrative that they encounter trouble, a fact that seems lost on many critics and is responsible for the fact that Quick Flix’s documentary shelf remains disproportionately full...
...response to growing student interest in politics and public service, the Institute of Politics will hire a full-time career counselor to help students at the College find long-term jobs in politics...