Word: patchwork
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...citizenship inspired by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the adolescent U.S. The Italian peninsula was a crux of this struggle. The Pope himself was a monarch, ruler of the states girdling the boot approximately from Naples to Venice, playing survival politics amid what historian Kertzer describes as "a patchwork of duchies, grand duchy, Bourbon and Savoyard kingdoms [and] Austrian outposts." Would-be nation builders plotted Italy's unification from the south and the north. Revolutionaries, writes Kertzer, goggled across papal borders at those who regarded "the notions that people should be free to think what it pleased them...
These are just a few of the signs of an Internet culture blossoming in Latin America, unevenly, in patchwork fashion, but in an accelerating rush. In just two years, the region has become the Internet world's next big thing. Though its connectivity rates are still low in comparison with the U.S.'s--only about 2% of Latin America's 500 million people are online, while more than half of Americans are--telecommunications analysts say it is the fastest-growing market in the world. They predict that by 2003 the networked region will reach anywhere from 29.6 million...
...patchwork alliance of anti-IMF demonstrators has brought business-as-usual in Washington grinding to a halt, but its impact insidethe corridors of power may be more diffuse. The federal government Monday gave its employees who work in the vicinity of the World Bank and IMF headquarters the day off, as police continued to battle mostly peaceful protesters challenging the international financial system and demanding debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Heavy-handed policing has, however, for the most part allowed the annual meetings of the bank and fund to proceed unmolested. Still, images of riot policemen dragging...
...study of more than 44,000 families by the Urban Institute shows that about a third of them lash together at least two child-care arrangements (8% of families use three or more), including day-care centers, sitters, neighbors, friends and family. Sound familiar? This patchwork is difficult enough for 9-to-5 workers, but in an economy in which more and more businesses work 24/7, parents who work "nonstandard" hours and weekends have an even harder time finding acceptable child care. Any family facing the child-care crunch knows there will be times when the patches don't hold...
...when Harvard was launching Project ADAPT, CSU began a similar effort to replace its patchwork of aging information systems. While Harvard chose Oracle to provide the base software package, CSU selected Oracle's competitor, PeopleSoft...