Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infatuated with polls that they have supplanted the issues they were meant to complement as the hottest news stories. When we bombed Afghanistan and Sudan, the media focused on what Americans thought about the bombings without investigating why we thought it. Reporters wanted to know only whether we initially agreed with the air strikes and whether they were too eerily similar...
When the giants agreed to an alliance, Psion became the Cinderella of the mobile-phone world. Analysts figured that if it won 15% of the mobile-phone market projected for 2003, Psion's share of Symbian alone could be worth $430 million a year. The deal also meant that Psion's computers might find more customers. Psion's depressed shares soared as a result, from $3.36 to $12 on the London Stock Exchange. "For a while it looked like Psion was finished, but by getting together with the dominant players in the telecom industry and partnering with them, they have...
Robinson also explained that clothes meant tolook good are starting to include more durablefabrics like nylon. This is accomplished through aprocess called core-spinning, where fine materiallike cashmere is spun around a core of asynthesized material like nylon, yielding a fabricwith properties different from pure cashmere withthe FEEL of cashmere...
...also said that since Core courses are meant to introduce younger students to subjects they might otherwise miss later on, he was eager to attract first years and sophomores, especially those interested in the sciences...
Clearly the images of the Hindu gods in the club are divorced completely from any religious connotation--they are mere commodities meant to add to its exotic flavor. Nothing could more trivialize the faith of Hindus. It is significant to note, perhaps, that the majority owner of the Karma Club is himself a Hindu of Asian Indian origin. My comments are thus directed not only to popular performers like Madonna and Aerosmith, but also to anyone heedlessly seeking to profit off the sentiments of others...