Word: fusions
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...Given that our unofficial national motto is "Too much sport is not enough," I am surprised that Australia and its games did not get a guernsey in your "Games People Play" issue. Polocrosse, a wild fusion of lacrosse and polo, has horses fitter than polo ponies and far more bruising action than polo does. Australian Rules, a cross between rugby league and Gaelic football, requires the utmost fitness, as there are virtually no stoppages and minimal reserves of replacement players. As for equestrian competition, when the Australian team won the Three-Day Event over the killer course...
...Both parties to the fusion have grown big through mergers at home. Steelworkers currently only make up a fifth of USW's 1.2 million members, who work in such disparate sectors as mining, oil, paper, health care and security. Unite is the result of the consolidation last year of two other big unions, and its 2 million members also toil in a wide range of industries including aerospace, steel, brewing and transportation...
...ceremony. “I’ll be in bright colors, he’ll be in some crazy Bengali outfit…and each family member will put turmeric on me,” Ali said of the event. The clothing will also represent a fusion of West and East. “My mom bought my wedding dress, which is a Bengali style lehenga, but it’s a white-colored dress instead of the traditional red and gold,” Ali said. “On the wedding day, it?...
...After nearly two weeks of silence, Augé and Rosnay sought to quell the controversy by releasing a statement defending the piece as a fusion of art and entertainment. "The film was never intended as a stigmatization of the banlieue, nor an incitation to violence, nor above all, as an underhanded way to deliver a racist message," they stated. From the beginning, they said, Stress was meant to be a "clip unairable on television" for a "track unairable on the radio," and they have "refused any television broadcast of the clip, so as to impose it on no one." According...
...that there was an area in the law with a fusion of securities regulation, looking at the legal part of [mergers and acquisitions],” Anguas said. “The MBA gives you the knowledge of management and how these companies run, and the JD [teaches you] what legal devices might be most advantageous to them at a given time...