Word: radars
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...committed relationship, but they aren't perfectly happy. No one who was perfectly happy in their primary relationship gets into a second one. They're a lot unhappy, or maybe just a little. Maybe they have no plans to cheat. And then the other person somehow floats onto their radar screen. The image that I have is like someone who has been wandering around with a couple of empty wine glasses who suddenly meets someone with a bottle of wine. And so they want a little taste. It starts very innocently. Very slowly they get to know each other...
...bubble looking ready to burst, Fuller's reputation has deflated a bit too. Geodesic domes are no longer the rage they were in the '60s, when not only did hippies love them but even the Defense Department owned a string of them to house its early-warning radar network along the Arctic Circle. Bucky, as he was known to everybody, was an authentic American visionary, the kind who could seem at first glance--and not just at first glance--like a bit of a crackpot, something between a panoramic intellect and one of those "outsider" artists who manically fill...
Newsom told TIME he never expected to be in the middle of a fight for gay marriage: "Gay marriage was not on my radar. No one had asked me what I thought about it, and I had never really given it any thought one way or another." But the Bush State of the Union address changed all that. "I just felt deeply disconnected to my country, about which I care about very much," he said. "So I decided I'd make my stand by marrying one couple, and we decided [in 2004] we'd issue a marriage license for Phyllis...
...believes he doesn't have to play according to universally accepted standards of behavior. So you're really dealing with a dictatorship. So the international community, short of intervention, has done all the diplomatic pressure they can apply on the country. The Zimbabwe issue has attracted the international radar for a long time ... but, you know, [this is] Africa, where armed conflicts are prevalent. In Zimbabwe there is no armed conflict, but it is state-sponsored violence that has caused so much suffering. They treat it differently. [The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
...that treats them with respect...it’s what makes him a phenomenal colleague and a great administrator.”A HIDDEN SIDEWhile never a fan of attention, and perhaps in part because of the transitory nature of his deanship, Pilbeam stayed largely under the radar while leading the College. His name only flared up in the student body when unpopular decisions were passed down—primarily those concerning the alcohol policy and transfer admissions.Criticism over both the decisions themselves and the perception of Pilbeam as being out of touch with student desires flew following these announcements...