Word: nascent
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...block of ice. As a woman brushed her teeth, an announcer exclaimed: "It's tingling fresh. It's fresh as ice. It's Gibbs SR toothpaste." Not exactly scintillating TV. But give ad execs of the '50s a break. They were just starting to grapple with a nascent but potentially powerful medium - one they eventually tamed through trial and error. And that's a challenge and process not unlike the one facing Dare and other trailblazing digital ad agencies of today. It's an apt analogy, Collier says: "We're in the vanguard of a commercial revolution." And when...
...outta there good. Nobody got hit," he says. The Marines are based in the battle-scarred Government Center in the middle of Ramadi, a magnet for al-Qaeda attacks--one of the few ways the Marines can find their enemy. The precarious outpost also protects the nascent local government, which operates out of its confines...
...change, they say, there will be war. The government and oil companies "don't listen to words," Delta militia member Richard, 27, told Time three weeks ago, the dull roar of a gas flare in the background. "So perhaps they will understand the language of the gun." The nascent insurgency has made Nigeria's oil fields among the most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past $72 bbl. Nigeria was meant to be part of the solution to the insatiable demands for more oil from the U.S. and fast-growing China and India. When the country...
...What about claims of a nascent insurgency? I don't believe that. To fight an insurgency in Timor you need profound motivations-otherwise you don't last long. But the situation is still very tense. The population of Dili is stressed. There are all sorts of rumors...
...though, like a nascent Latin American democracy, reform is in vogue and the IOP has recently allowed an unlimited number of groups to get approval...