Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that just highlights the paradox of Wal-Mart. For all its lingering Bible Belt ways, the company is in most other respects forward thinking. When it comes to technology, Wal-Mart leads the industry. The company is now installing a satellite communications system that will enable a constant stream of sales and inventory data to flow between each store and headquarters. Such information is quickly relayed to ten giant warehouses, which keep the stores well stocked at all times. Every Wal-Mart is within a day's drive of one of these storage depots...
...find himself the victim of a cruel paradox. Employers in the area have put out the word that those returning from the U.S. need not apply. Their attitude is summed up by Ignacio Manriquez, 26, Jorge's cousin, who employs about 80 people on six pig farms in and around Huandacareo. "They get used to the big money they make in the U.S.," he says. "They see they won't make in a day what they were getting in an hour up there. And the first time there's a problem, they say, 'You can take this job and shove...
...women were at the gates of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They died in the gas chamber on Aug. 9. In words that today ring with heroism, Sister Teresa told Rosa in Echt, "Come. We are going for our people." In those words rest the very paradox of Sister Teresa: Were her people Jews or Catholics? The Carmelite nun, 50 when she died, was born Edith Stein, a Jew, and converted to Roman Catholicism when...
...this paradox that gives The Sunlight Dialogues its depth. Whereas law and order are fundamentally unjust, but able to survive, protest and chaos are incapable of enduring. Although The Sunlight Dialogues is set in the 1960s and uses the lingo of that decade, Gardner's book is far closer to the nightmare pessimism of Kafka's The Trial or Canetti's Auto-Da-Fe than to the hippie philosophizing of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
...saturation bombing of cities 25 years later demonstrate how those martial rules became a grisly form of accounting. It was a matter of cost per thousand, the fewest dollars for the most kills. In this banal light, a nuclear bomb is the pinnacle of efficiency, a macabre paradox because it was brought about by the best minds working within a great humanist tradition. For the sake of spiritual harmony, it could be said that The Making of the Atomic Bomb recounts the second greatest story ever told...