Word: mereness
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...October 1949 the tiny Taiwanese island of Kinmen made the world's headlines as Republican soldiers drove communist forces back into the sea. A mere 1.8 km from mainland China and trapped between the jaws of two promontories, Kinmen proved difficult for the attackers to chew and swallow. For several decades the island and mainland remained only on shelling, then on yelling, terms. Bombardment continued intermittently until 1978, and vast p.a. systems broadcast propaganda each way across the narrow straight - truly a dialogue of the deaf...
...hello to Baby Jet. Raburn, a longtime amateur aviator who got bored with his life as a computer-products developer, wants to produce the world's first affordable--at least to some--personal jet. Raburn intends to price his twin-engine, five-seat Eclipse 500 at a mere $837,500. The popular Cessna CJ1, by comparison, costs more than $3.7 million. "If they really can stay under $1 million, they will set the biz-jet market on its ear," says Warren Morningstar, spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association...
...challenge for any analysis of the Microsoft antitrust saga is to resolve its central enigma: How could the same people who'd been so brilliant in the lab and the boardroom--building the world's most valuable corporation in a mere generation--have been so wrongheaded in the courtroom? Auletta has a provocative answer: what the Jesuits call holy effrontery. He argues that Bill Gates and his disciples are so convinced of the rightness of their cause that they can't even conceive that they might be wrong--or that any fairminded person could think...
...trash Harvard's admittedly old-fashioned schedule. In the midst of long finals and lengthy papers, weary students bemoan an irregular academic calendar that imposes exam period after winter break. But there are many underappreciated facets of the schedule that benefit undergraduates, and few reasons to change--other than mere conformity...
...more transparent system would help avoid these disputes. The mere fact that the process is so compartmentalized fosters allegations of wrongdoing. Professors who are denied tenure find it easy to point fingers at a faceless, possibly stacked committee; accountability would reduce the acrimony that accompanies the tenure process. With a truly open process, junior faculty would feel that they are getting a legitimate shot to achieve tenure...