Word: particular
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...quickly squashed by the fact that much of this trip consisted of traveling through hundreds of miles of featureless desert. Thankfully, the sheer inertia of this truth keeps “Journey to Mecca” from exceeding 45 minutes, but it doesn’t stop those particular 45 minutes from being utterly sterile. It’s also worth mentioning that every minute is on an IMAX screen...
Back in 2004, Gwen Stefani made her debut as a solo artist with a posse of Japanese females in tow. Christened the Harajuku Girls, they introduced the American public to a particular brand of the Japanese fashion scene, though its representation was severely skewed. The style originated in Tokyo’s eponymous district and draws upon countless chronological and geographical influences, both aesthetically and commercially—European luxury brands regularly vie for the attention of Harajuku consumers alongside local designers. The potential origins of this uniquely Japanese amalgamation of cultural pressures are currently on display at the Museum...
...home subscription when they got their first jobs and reluctantly let their subscriptions lapse when they died. If you were fortunate enough to work there as a journalist, you never had to worry about looking for another job. If there wasn't enough space for a particular subject, the paper simply added a supplement...
...budget. The only chance Obama will have to build confidence in the economy, even as he digs a deeper deficit hole in the next two years, is to convince Americans and the world that he's laying the foundation for long-term budget control through entitlement reform and, in particular, curbing the cost of health care. Total U.S. health-care spending in 2007 rose to $2.2 trillion, and the public portion is growing fast. "Medicare and Medicaid on their current trajectory cannot be sustained," Obama told a group of columnists aboard Air Force One. "And the only way I think...
...nature and timing of the stimulus package also made it a peculiarly inopportune occasion for the inauguration of a post-partisan era. Politicians are bipartisan either because they don’t think anyone (in particular Rush Limbaugh) is noticing or because there is overwhelming public support for something. Seduced by the fervor of the inauguration and the unprecedented nature of the economic crisis, many of us assumed there would be overwhelming public support for the stimulus package, as indeed there was before the Republicans got in their licks. But we should have learned from the pre-election bailout package...