Word: nauseam
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...presidential cycle, cyberpolitics has gone from being the quirky obsession of a college kid and his gizmo at the back of campaign headquarters to something far sleeker--e-campaigning. The capital's hard-bitten direct-mail and fund-raising pros are reshaping their careers, slinging e-jargon e-nauseam and looking to those same kids for Web strategies. Millions of dollars have been raised for presidential candidates online, and voters who may not know about any of them are being targeted at their terminals and put to work...
However, the album stagnates near the middle, as the music evidently takes a back seat to the visually-oriented stage show. Too often, the repetitive themes are played out ad nauseam, many times ending in anticlimactic crescendos. The most successful piece is the epic "Klein Mandelbrot," which conveys a kinetic sense of flux. Moments like this are effective due to their innovation in combining percussion and electronic music with more conventional instruments. But while the album presents an unusual sonic experience, it is unlikely to impress listeners searching for the excitement of a live Blue Man Group performance...
...makes us prefer one number to the other. It is this same passion for multiples of ten that will lead to so few people going to bed early on December 31, despite the purely conventional nature of the calendar and the fact that, as we have been told ad nauseam, there was no year zero and therefore that the third millennium won't start until 2001. It is also this tyranny of ten that dictates that my adolescence has just ended...
...consider some 11th-hour tax planning. It won't help you score a Furby for your toddler, but the right financial moves before the end of 1998 will have far more impact on Junior's well-being. The same basic year-end tips tend to get rehashed ad nauseam. So I won't spend a lot of time encouraging you to defer income into next year and accelerate deductions into this year. Ditto for making certain that you use, not lose, any money still in a flexible-spending account at work and for making charitable donations in the form...
...likes" she uses:"...where I can see a couple of the guys turning away like they didn't see the whole thing. Like they don't know the whole damned story." She writes like her only option is to use that four-letter word ad nauseam...