Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...forward idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
...credited al-Maliki's confrontation with al-Sadr's Shi'ite militia with shoring up government support among Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis. "You've seen a coalescing of a center in Iraqi politics." Maliki, also a Shi'ite, had drawn criticism in the past by Sunni factions in particular for failing to crack down on the Mahdi Army, which is blamed for much of the sectarian violence in Iraq...
...Everybody has the capability to do the same thing...it’s just how the student is pushed to do it,” she said. Cambridge School Committee member Marc C. McGovern echoed these sentiments. “Sometimes we focus too much on one particular group or another,” he said. “We need to make our schools strong for all of our kids.” ‘GUILTY OF LOW AIM’While the graduation rate is up and more students have been passing the MCAS in recent years...
...Even in Syria, however, rug buying can be intimidating for the beginner. Innumerable variations of region, style and quality make establishing the value of any particular rug daunting. And then there's the relentless bazaar bargaining that can turn any transaction a microcosmic "clash of cultures" between in which straight-forward, naïve Westerners imagine themselves being conned by wily, opaque "Orientals...
...session following a screening, director Tom McCarthy said, “I’d rather you talk about it. I don’t want to explain the movie or tie things up too neatly.” This response reflects the subjective nature of the film, in particular its discussion of illegal immigration and deportation in post-9/11 America. McCarthy, however, chooses to present these issues through the personal stories of people who would never have met had it not been for unlikely circumstances. “The Visitor” charts the story of Walter Vale...