Word: hollowness
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...that the Coop is offering. One hundred and forty-nine dollars gets you a new textbook and new coursepack, wrapped together. Separately, the coursepack is $66 and the used textbook $111. In this case, the Coop’s vaunted efforts to save students money with used textbooks ring hollow in the face of the inflated coursepack price...
...Ministry of Transport, said that the bulkhead was found at the crash site and that it had been "peeled like a tangerine." It was possible, he said, that if the partition had cracked in flight, the air rushing from the cabin could have had enough force to dislodge the hollow tail fin. American experts theorized that the large number of takeoffs and landings, each involving a pressurization or depressurization of the cabin, required in the short-range use of the 747SR could have accelerated metal fatigue in the bulkhead. The crashed aircraft had made some 18,000 "cycles" (a takeoff...
...failure was more starkly obvious in China. The average peasant or city worker was little better off, if at all, when Mao died in 1976 than he or she had been in the 1950s. But even the Soviet Union has long since had to forget Nikita Khrushchev's hollow boast that it would inevitably "bury" the U.S. by surpassing the American standard of living. Quite the opposite: the U.S.S.R.'s economic growth rate has slipped to about half the pace of the 1960s, and its citizens still have to stand in long lines for such minor amenities of life...
...opinion should be writing essays and editorials; journalists who report news need to stick to the facts. Today's journalists seem to blur the distinction between news and opinion. Joseph K. Valaitis Brecksville, Ohio, U.S. White House spokesman Scott McClellan's call for Newsweek to "repair the damage" rang hollow. It's the White House that should repair the damage done to the U.S. by the war in Iraq. What about the suffering of the families of U.S. service members who lost their lives? It is time for Americans, regardless of political party, to demand that our government be accountable...
White House spokesman Scott McClellan's call for Newsweek to "repair the damage" rang hollow. It's the White House that should repair the damage done to the U.S. by the war in Iraq. What about the suffering of the families of U.S. service members who lost their lives? It is time for Americans, regardless of political party, to demand that our government be accountable to us. The Administration should stop mischaracterizing the reporting of news as attacks on the Bush presidency...