Word: latters
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Political analysts point out the latter attribute has actually decreased in importance during this year's presidential campaign. Candidates have made a concerted effort to appeal to the anti-intellectual preferences of certain voters. John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, frequently jokes about his fifth-from-the-bottom finish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Gore and Bradley have similarly made the effort to downplay their respective Harvard and Princeton educations in recent months...
Microsoft has undeniably been an innovative force in the technology industry. However, the question posed by this trial was not whether Microsoft fostered innovation within its own company, but whether it deliberately pursued policies that stifled innovation by potential competitors. The answer to the latter question, according to Jackson...
...PHYSICAL A study in JAMA reports that women ages 25 to 45 who use home-exercise equipment lose more weight than those who go for brisk walks or otherwise exercise outside the home. Members of the latter group were found to be more likely to skip their regimen in bad weather or if they got delayed until after dark. Those with treadmills and such at home could more easily fit exercise into fast-changing family schedules, even as they watched over children...
...Three sets of underwear (white). Six pairs of white socks (no color bands, designs or logos). What was this, summer camp? Or just a hopelessly big bureaucracy trying to trim costs? The last few days bespoke a lot of the latter. My recruiting station says MEPS (I still don't know what that stands for) has lost my FS-86, a meticulous accounting of my history and friends that took me weeks to complete. (I do a short version - the last three years - in 20 minutes.) My future base in Flushing tells me they haven't heard from my recruiter...
...Kugel: Walker Percy, The Moviegoer and The Last Gentleman (still like them both); Martin Buber, Good and Evil and The Eclipse of God (the beginning of the latter still tolerable); books of poetry by Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, James Merrill, Alan Dugan, Randall Jarrell, John Hollander. Oh, also Rimbaud, Mallarme. (All still great...