Word: leaning
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Would you describe President Bush as ... ... Competent? Total: 52% G.O.P.: 90% Dem.: 25% Ind.: 46% ... Incompetent? Total: 47% G.O.P.: 9% Dem.: 73% Ind.: 53% CONGRESS Voters lean toward putting the Democrats back in control even though the party is seen as lacking a clear agenda. Voters prefer the Democrats on many domestic matters, but Republicans hold a notable edge on handling terrorism If the congressional elections were being held today, would you be more likely to vote for the Republican or Democratic candidate?* Democratic 50% Republican 41% Regardless of which candidates you favor, would you rather see the Republicans...
...fencing room at the MAC—a long, narrow space that features simultaneous bouts with different weapons—makes for the ultimate, and often the extreme, spectator sport. Fans line up along the walls, mere inches away from the action; in particularly aggressive bouts, fans must lean into the wall to avoid, well, getting hurt. In this the year of the men’s first ever outright Ivy League title, they offer the “automatic tournament berth” neither basketball team could muster this season...
...movie and the movie will be all around you. The movie will be over your head, it will be a 360 degrees around you, even be a little bit under you, and you will be in your seat with hand controls where you can rotate your seat, lean back, lean forward, have complete control over your seat to be able to keep up with all the imagery that is going to take you on a mind-blowing journey. I see that kind of experience without losing narrative...
...what it demands of the faculty,” wrote Professor Michael J. Sandel in a January New York Times article on the Harvard curriculum. Articulating the tension between faculty research and undergraduate education in large research universities, Sandel asserted that “general education needs to lean against the specializing tendencies of departments and disciplines...
...have been many migrations. "It looks like there may have been one primary migration, but certain genetic markers are more prevalent in North America than in South America," Schurr explains, suggesting secondary waves. At this point, there's no definitive proof of either idea, but the evidence and logic lean toward multiple migrations. "If one migration made it over," Dillehay, now at Vanderbilt University, asks rhetorically, "why not more...