Word: hollowness
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...committee's report. It offers a full record of instances in which Gingrich declared that his purpose was to raise up a generation of G.O.P. activists. Against those, his bland assurances in at least two letters to the investigating committee that the course was "completely nonpartisan" ring hollow...
Shames recalls a series of frustrating meetings with College administrators four years ago. “We felt like every single promise she made was hollow,” she says of one former administrator. “She was a politician, essentially, who was very good at her job of representing the administration and not helping the female students...
...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...