Word: hides
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Zander tells the story with a baby boomer's nostalgia for his 1950s childhood and a true salesman's pride. Now CEO of Motorola, Zander, 58, doesn't hide the fact that he has tried to animate the company with his particular brand of Brooklyn moxie. He acknowledges that Motorola has a storied past. (Its engineers invented the cellular phone and the walkie-talkie, and it was one of the world's first manufacturers of semiconductors.) But in the years before Zander took over, Motorola had been losing ground to the market-leading muscle of Nokia and to the stylish...
...INTERNET TRULY CREATING CONNECTIONS AMONG PEOPLE? OR DIVIDING US AS WE HIDE INSIDE OUR PRIVATE SHELLS...
...members kept the society completely secret, and election nights were particularly perilous for the clandestine meetings. When two non-members suddenly burst into a meeting, Phillips describes, the members scrambled to hide the record book. To rid themselves of one intruder’s presence, the Clubbers encouraged the girl to take a nap. Luckily for them, it worked...
...suburbs by Islamists recruiters. But the youths currently involved in rioting don't fit the profile sought by highly secretive jihadists, whose primary fear is infiltration by the authorities. Most rioters are active in their own neighborhoods, are known to the inhabitants looking on, and make little effort to hide their identities from police or media on hand. Their anti-social violence aside, these aren't the kinds of hotheads that Islamist extremists, already under tight surveillance, will want populating their networks...
...insurgency announce the Americans' movements through the loudspeakers of city mosques. Although direct engagement with the insurgents is rare, the Marines face the constant threat of mortars, car bombs, suicide attacks and ever more sophisticated improvised explosive devices. When the Marines are on patrol, insurgents take potshots and then hide before the Americans can shoot back. They test the troops by seeing how close they can drive to a patrol before the Marines open fire. Lately, troops say, insurgents have begun using a technique called pigeon flipping: while on patrol, the Marines have noticed flocks of pigeons circling above them...