Word: objecters
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...every irresistible force, there's an immovable object. Dell may be about to bump up against his: Beijing-based Legend Computer. Legend is the runaway PC leader in China, a country that represents one of the planet's last great I.T. sales opportunities. Despite relatively low penetration rates, China's $10 billion computer market is already the third largest in the world; within a few years it is expected to move past Japan and become second only to the U.S. For computer companies, success on the mainland is becoming increasingly crucial as markets in developed countries reach saturation. Last year...
However, in spite of its accessibility, the work encourages further exploration and contemplation. The abstract nature of the work, while speaking to objective thoughts, also invites personal interpretation and valuation. Since the work does not explicitly portray any particular object, the pieces can become intimately connected to the viewer on a more fundamental level...
...surprisingly, these hunts have their critics. A handful of states ban or restrict the practice, and a pair of bills are pending in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to prohibit the interstate sale of exotic animals for hunts. Supporters of the hunts object, arguing that exotics are bred in sufficient numbers to support the industry and that many surplus zoo animals could not survive in the wild anyway. Even to some outdoorsmen, however, canned hunts are beginning to look like no hunt at all. "I started hunting when I was 7 and didn't kill my first deer...
...have lost a leader but gained a generation.” That generation is Geffen’s generation, and he is its leader, its symbol and its hope for the future. Geffen was known for years as a conscientious objector in a nation without the option to object. But this year, as Israel spirals ever further away from peace, Geffen draws his generation closer and the power of Geffen’s music to move and convey his message is clearly not dependent on language. This fall, the diehard pacifist and conscientious objector even joined the army, if only...
...Frattaroli might object that, as Freud put it (in a quote that introduces a chapter of “Healing the Soul”) “If it [a discoverable connection between brain and mind] existed, it would at most provide an exact location of the processes of consciousness and would give us no help towards understanding them.” And yet, it seems that we may concede this point and still not abandon the expectation that a concept of the soul will eventually become irrelevant in psychiatry...