Word: peculiare
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...road. Until just recently I measured my progress on cross-country driving trips by the rise and fall of radio signals that strengthened as I approached a town and fuzzed away as I entered the countryside. The airwaves were jumpy, uncertain and alive, a patchwork of distinctive accents and peculiar regional interests. I knew I was getting close to Texas from the twang of steel guitars. I realized I might reach Omaha by suppertime when I started hearing crop reports. Often, when I was traveling through North Dakota, the only voices I could hear spoke in Native American languages, whose...
...current form of globalization, with its level playing field and widely accessible avenues for international commercial competition, arose. Ten “flatteners,” the story goes, constitute the forces primarily responsible for leveling the playing field. Most of these are business practices defined in the peculiar language of management consultants—outsourcing, insourcing, open-sourcing, supply-chaining—but the list also includes the fall of the Berlin Wall and Netscape’s initial public offering, which Friedman may credit too effusively for initiating the 1990s tech economy. Though these factors seem somewhat arbitrarily...
Both the attention-challenged fan looking for a bit of comic relief before reading period and the theater fanatic should venture to this cozy production of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” in for a peculiar and unique mix of art, science, and theater...
...more pathetic than apathetic: to use a favorite phrase, we sweat the people in power. “Identifying with the system seems somewhat peculiar to Harvard,” said Mackinnon. “Most students identify with the underdog...
...slightly peculiar to see the Crimson seeded behind the Bears (14-11) in the Northern Championships, seeing as Harvard had taken three of four contests from Brown this season...