Word: presentism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make sense when you're talking about a computing platform with 10 hours of battery life, a blisteringly fast CPU and ambitions to replace your laptop. It's fine for Apple to be secretive when it talks about the future of its products. But when Apple talks about the present this way, it just sounds like Pravda...
...injured in the fire. Additionally, since it started between the restaurant’s lunch and dinner hours, no customers were present during the fire, Cotter said. The restaurant had begun to prepare for dinner when the flames ignited...
...many of the schools, the first thing we noticed was the constant din of children yelling, screaming, and generally being unruly. Adult supervision was scarce, and where there was an adult present, the adult was scurrying from one end of the classroom to the other, quieting the children here and breaking up fights there...
...symptomatic of a more psychological problem, as many of the children were effectively suffering from “post-traumatic stress disorder.” In hushed tones, these teachers described issues that students were forced to deal with at home, and how the students deal with an ever-present understanding that many in the school’s leadership have no sincere or abiding interest in their future welfare. Rather, these “leaders” are interested in housing them for eight hours, without truly teaching or imparting knowledge, and then releasing them back into the custody...
...They traveled to the White House on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, to present Obama with their ideas for the stimulus bill. They weren't greatly encouraged, though, when Obama told them at that meeting in the Roosevelt Room that "elections have consequences, and I won." Over the weekend, the GOP leadership met, and by the time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a deal on the legislation late Sunday, they were sure that nothing they had proposed was included in the measure...