Word: interrupt
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TIME: If I can interrupt...
...gave responses that to me seemed practiced and non-convincing, and in the case of the Holocaust, particularly disturbing.” While Ahmadinejad spoke to the council for the bulk of the meeting, at one point Carter broke in. “I had to interrupt him to say that the issue was not Iran’s right to have nuclear weapons, but human rights,” Carter said. However, Ahmadinejad “returned to his set position,” according to Carter, and did not respond. Nonetheless, Carter said he was glad...
...programming dominated the ninth area, which controls absorption. Indeed, viewers were so absorbed by the programs that the other areas were nearly dormant. More predictably, the study also found that ads work best when their content is in harmony with the programs they interrupt. An ad for the alcopop WKD, for instance, registered more viewer interest than a Red Cross appeal when both appeared during a South Park clip. Another Neurosense study, for PHD Media, a media-buying agency, looked at which areas of the brain are most receptive to different media--TV, print and radio. PHD used the results...
...Escape the bells: What a waste to plan a schedule of 11 a.m. classes only to be woken up every morning at 8:40 a.m by the Memorial Church bells. Luckily, outside of the Yard, the early ringing won’t interrupt your pleasant slumber...
Together, Marathon and its partners developed a comprehensive $12 million plan that targeted mosquitoes and called for improvements in medical care. Because infected mosquitoes tend to bite at night, when people are home, an indoor spraying program using the pesticide bendiocarb was launched to interrupt the cycle of transmission. (Small amounts of the chemical are applied directly to walls where mosquitoes like to linger.) At the same time, the Ministry of Health of Equatorial Guinea introduced the use of artemisinin-based combination therapy, the new standard of treatment for malaria in the underdeveloped world...