Word: hyphenations
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Moreover, voters are not likely to be asked the straightforward question: Do you want Quebec to become independent? Instead, Levesque and his chief adviser, Claude Morin, have propounded a so-called hyphen strategy, in which the government will seek a "mandate to negotiate sovereignty-association" with Ottawa. Such a phrasing might make it possible for the Parti Québecois to appeal even to opponents of independence, since they would be asked merely to grant Levesque a vague authority to negotiate for unspecified new provincial powers. But it would fall far short of the Parti Québecois' avowed...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...
...Kierkegaardian monologues good and evil, the mini-historian of science, progress and civilization, and the pastoral poet. In addition he rounds off his complex work on a note of affirmation that the reader may find more determined than logical, like the highnote climax to a trumpet solo. For the hyphen that Gardner most ardently longs for is the one that might connect night to day, lost to found, chaos to order-all the enemies, all the opposites...
...have so far wrested 7% of the market away from IBM. Royal and some of the others even claim to have eliminated a minor but noticeable problem with the Selectric: "the flick." When two keys are hit in quick succession, the Selectric occasionally prints the second one as a hyphen. It is a problem that IBM puts down to changes in heat or humidity...
...though, the two largest British unions have shifted radically leftwards and increased the split between M.P.'s and trade unionists to alarming proportions. Wilson has so far, single-handedly bridged this gap. As Crossman pointed out, in Bagehot's terms Wilson has acted as the "bridge or buckle or hyphen" between Labour's two power bases...