Word: pose
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Once we recognize that the free market is as much a conscious policy as market regulation is--that to pose no checks to development is to ensure that it will happen--whether or not to allow the existence of the new building becomes a normative decision. To relegate the consequences of development to mere side effects, the ideology inherent in calling them "externalities," is to ignore the large-scale impact the building is intended to have on the entire community. The intended effect of the Holmes Realty plan is not to improve the living standards of those who live...
...asteroid, dubbed 1997 XF11, presented no threat at all. It would miss Earth by 600,000 miles--closer than any previously observed asteroid of that size but a comfortable distance. Still, the incident focused attention once and for all on the largely ignored danger that asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth. As Los Alamos senior scientist Greg Canavan put it, paraphrasing Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows...
...film adaptation of E.M. Forster's Eternal Moment, he purchases one for a silly teen movie titled Hotpants College II. Giles' attention drifts until he spots the mesmerizing visage of Ronnie Bostock. Ronnie has just been doused with ketchup and lies strewn across a diner counter in a pose that reminds the well-educated Giles of the Pre-Raphaelite painting of the death of Chatterton. From this pivotal point onwards the movie focuses around Gilesi unceasing fixation with Ronnie...
Playboy offered Woodbury the chance to pose last summer while she was modeling in New York. "[Playboy] needed college girls this summer, and my agent knew the producer," she said. "Basically, it went from there...
...notice it at first, especially in ascience class, where I was one of only a handfulof girls," Hamm says. "[But] I've been veryimpressed with the way girls really speak up hereas muchA-3SCHOOLSCrimsonSamantha A. GoldsteinGILLIAN L. CHESNEY '01 and COURTNEY E. ELLIS'00 pose with one of high school English textsfrom St. Mary's school...