Word: relevantizing
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France, the E.U.'s biggest recipient of farm aid, launched a preemptive strike, warning that the global food crisis made the CAP more relevant than ever. "The solution to the crisis is not, first of all, through free trade," French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier told fellow E.U. farm ministers on...
Here's how the study worked: volunteers, Dutch university students, were randomly assigned to one of three experimental groups. Researchers "primed" each group at the outset - using a variety of psychological devices - to feel powerful, powerless or neutral. In one priming exercise, students were asked to form sentences using specific...
But politics is also, well, political, and NARAL was well aware that if it had withheld its endorsement much longer, it would have risked irrelevance. Now it's so relevant, of course, that it has succeeded in reinvigorating weary Clinton supporters. But that too may fade. Despite Malcolm's feisty...
In the escalating smackfest between President George W. Bush and Barack Obama it's hard to know who needs whom more. Bush is struggling to keep his presidency relevant, and injecting himself into the presidential campaign is a sure way to do that. At the same time, Obama is happy...
But there's a downside for both men in the fight. Bush is not just trying to stay relevant by injecting himself into the campaign: he's trying to help John McCain, partly because he wants the Republican to win and partly because the election will be seen in as...