Word: interruptive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hanged the next day. But even interviews with minders present have given a lot of information. Our people are scientists. There is a limit to how much you can lie between two people who are competent in the field. The Iraqis certainly misused this. The minders would interrupt. They'd say, No, you're wrong; you remember wrongly there. That's why we say it should be private interviews. But it's very hard to get to that under conditions that give full credibility...
...champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history, I interrupt to ask: "Don't you find it strange to be riding in the car of the most reviled woman in China?" Maggie shrugs. "Why would it be strange? She's famous?just like Jackie Chan...
...Hunnam). When Embry suddenly reappears, Katie is consumed by fear and confusion, and spirals out of control. Simultaneously trying to balance her thesis, job interviews and a resurfaced first love, Katie ultimately seeks comfort in the arms of Wade. However, violent run-ins with Embry and multiple time skips interrupt their uninspired romance. The film ends with a final twist that is predictable, laughable and not at all thrilling...
Like a strand of tightly woven twine, the spinal cord is actually made up of thousands of nerve fibers that are strongest and most effective when they work as an intact unit. Even the slightest fraying of the cord can interrupt or weaken signals traveling from the brain to the muscles, in some cases resulting in paralysis. To bridge these gaps in the tapestry of nerve cells, you have to either coax existing neurons to grow across the neural divide or introduce new cells to replace the damaged ones. Often the two strategies feed off each other: the growth...
...early success of their new Arabic-language station, Radio Sawa ("together"). Unlike the staid and preachy Voice of America (VOA), Radio Sawa targets a youth audience with trendy American and Arab pop music, attempting to get Washington's take on the news across in snippets that infrequently interrupt the Top 40 barrage. So far, only Arab audiences in Jordan, Dubai, and Kuwait have been able to tune in to Radio Sawa (the signal doesn't reach Cairo or Beirut clearly), but its popularity doesn't necessarily signal an acceptance of an American political message. Because its clear in Cairo that...