Word: karl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Comprehensive immigration reform was the centerpiece of his effort to court the Latino voters whom strategists like [Karl] Rove and [Matthew] Dowd considered crucial to the party's future fortunes," Brownstein wrote. "It was also Bush's best chance for an important second-term legislative achievement after the collapse of his Social Security plan, not to mention an opportunity to make substantive progress against an entrenched problem. But Bush's overriding priority on unifying Republicans prevented him from achieving any of those goals. Instead, he was left with an immigration policy built solely around enforcement and symbolized by an exclusionary...
...increasingly intuitive user interfaces (think the iPhone); in algorithms that show how the movements of schooling fish mirror the behavior of investors, making stock-market predictions more reliable. Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist and a co-founder of SFI, likes to cite the case of physicist Karl Jansky, who founded the science of radio astronomy in 1931 when he was studying the hiss of electromagnetic static that bathes the Earth--part of the same hiss you hear on a car radio. Jansky realized that the sound was caused not by atmospheric disturbances but by ancient signals streaming...
...Tribute to Karl Marx” at the 3 Sacramento St. location, where about half of the Co-op residents live. The painting has a red star over the phrase “Workingmen of the world, unite!” written in several different languages...
...humanities or social sciences cracked open the works of Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, and Michel de Montaigne. Bending the spines of heavy books purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont library, students learned about the working-class struggle through the words of Karl Marx, and perused Niall Ferguson’s “Empire” and Christopher A. Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World” in order to understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed...
...What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.” In it, McClellan labels some of his public statements as propaganda and attributes Bush’s fall from grace to a Machiavellian lack of candor among top advisors like Karl Rove...