Word: neutrality
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...advantage from the crowd and not having to travel and being familiar with the confines, the home team usually wins. The rule of thumb in betting football is that home field is worth three points; a game with a three-point home favorite would be a coin flip on neutral turf...
...been around long enough to see the politicizing of many things: haircuts, handshakes, the choice of cars and food and, of course, smoking. What used to be neutral activities either were ostracized or, at least, required a moment's delicate consideration before one said or did something...
...Corner Office (Warner Business), a hit career guide of a few years back. Equating feeding with nourishing and deriding it as "a stereotypically female attribute," author Lois Frankel, a career coach, advised women to leave their girlishness in the parking lot and arrive for work as gender-neutral adults. She cites such tough-minded women, not girls, as Meg Whitman and Anne Mulcahy, the CEOs, respectively, of eBay and Xerox. Girls, she wrote witheringly, are "nice to be around and they're nice to have around--sort of like pets." In case anyone missed the message: "Quit bein' a girl...
...anonymity provided ample cover as he trolled for tips and frequented murder scenes. "Over time, my face became known," the 28-year-old writes in Gomorra, a riveting account of the Naples Mob. "[But] in territory under surveillance every second ? anything that isn't a hindrance is considered neutral." But with 100,000 copies sold since April, Saviano is no longer considered neutral, and no longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie...
...concentrators have remained the least satisfied. In 2004, students rated their satisfaction slightly below neutral—a 2.9 on the five-point scale—and in 2005, students rated their satisfaction as 2.6. The Class of 2006 marked their satisfaction at a 2.8, a figure still below neutral...