Word: mold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...school distinction as a badge of honor. I’m not exactly in the business of playing professional sports, so I’ll take the higher academic standards, more scholarly focus, and smaller class-size that usually comes with schools in the I-AA mold. I can watch those other guys on TV, just like anybody else.If I were a I-A athlete, I’d be insulted, too. With I-A/AA classifications, there was never a question as to who would be picked first on the proverbial playground that is college sports. Now, people will...
...notion that all Native Americans have red skin), the Fighting Sioux (reminding us that even until the 1950s, American children watched TV shows that depicted “the Injuns” as warrior peoples). If cultural progressivism is about creating inclusive communities where everyone has adequate opportunities to mold his image for himself—and especially historically marginalized peoples, like Native Americans and African Americans—then acknowledging and respecting the wishes of Native American leaders and communities to change sports mascots they do not view as positive symbols of their communities seems like the least...
...years since Christine Todd Whitman had her first job “working on Nelson Rockefeller’s campaign for the Presidency in 1964,” and now, she’s hoping that the next President will be a moderate Republican in Rockefeller’s mold, she told The Crimson in an interview yesterday. Whitman—who served as the first female governor of New Jersey from 1994–2001 before being named to President George W. Bush’s Cabinet as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency—now runs...
...DeepStream's pliable digital sensors overcome that limitation. "Instead of being flat and planar, we can mold them into any imaginable shape or topology, so now you can get into very awkward and difficult spaces," says Crosier. Another advantage: the materials are resistant to hazards like high temperatures and toxins...
...cloak what was, more broadly, a neo-Wilsonian mission of spreading democracy. The two primary realists in the Bush court, Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, were the most prominent castoffs by the end of the first term. And Condoleezza Rice, for years a sophisticated realist thinker in the mold of her mentor Scowcroft, underwent a post-9/11 conversion to the belief that there was no longer a useful distinction between democracy-crusading idealism and national-security realism...