Word: jettison
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...French ask newcomers to leave all cultural baggage at the borders,” he said. “But, this request doesn’t hold any water in the suburbs of Paris. Newly immigrated peoples are not able to jettison their religious and cultural identities...
Anoushka Shankar Rise With a Grammy nomination in 2003, sitar prodigy Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi, has already made her mark on Indian classical music. For her fourth album, Shankar has allowed Midival Punditz's Gaurav Raina, acting as producer, to jettison the traditional sound of her earlier work in favor of something altogether less orthodox, just as her father teamed up with Beatle George Harrison a generation ago. The album's anchor remains Shankar's dreamy sitar, but it also draws on electronica, jazz, rock, and African rhythms. Best track: the mesmerizing...
What Sanger claims is not that the site should fall out of favor. Rather, he feels that it (and, he would argue, any other would-be reliable source online) needs to jettison some of its “anti-elitism” in favor of a legitimate peer review system, one which displays a genuine respect for authority. If, for example, there’s a dispute over the evolutionary development of women, shouldn’t we hasten to give more credit to a noted biologist than to an economist? And at any rate, shouldn’t either...
...Philip Ahn (though he was billed 10th). She's the daughter of an antique dealer who is threatened, and killed, by a smuggling ring he is trying to expose. In an early scene, smugglers are shown flying aliens into the country; when the Feds close in on them, they jettison their human payload. (An identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang...
...brand name?a task made easier by its sponsorship of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As for IBM, the deal with Lenovo looks like a boon. The company, which retains a 19% stake in Lenovo, has long migrated toward consulting services and software, so it's happy to jettison its hardware shop. The PC unit experienced a loss of $258 million last year and has debts of $500 million?problems that now fall to Lenovo...