Word: renderers
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...outlet for our fears and represents a waiting ear for our troubles. Surely, some people always wanted their own soap opera or a movie about their life, some way to leave their mark on the world. The ability to carve out a private section of cyberspace and render it your own in a personal way is a powerful thing indeed. And as for the rest of us, who are perhaps a little too afraid to really let go (I had a weblog, but I never posted anything to it...), those of us who are admittedly more private people; well...
...deployments in Western Europe in exchange for the dismantling of all SS-20 missiles throughout the U.S.S.R. In 1982 he moved to head off the nuclear freeze movement by proposing deep cuts primarily in Soviet warheads. Then in 1983 he went the freeze movement one better and proposed to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" with his Strategic Defense Initiative. Now, in response to Gorbachev's ambitious peace offensive and offer to cut offensive weapons if Star Wars is scrapped, Reagan is responding with, "Let's talk about something else, something that the Soviets, to their discredit, don't want...
...quilt-stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went back to Florence, Alabama, a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There she returned to a generation that had grown up learning to quilt...
...quilt-stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went back to Florence, Alabama, a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There she returned to a generation that had grown up learning to quilt and sew. Since taking her business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About...
Just as they are today, political philosophers, historians, and public commentators were triumphant in their analyses; they predicted that Russia would soon develop and become democratic, that Germany would not threaten the balance of powers, and that the massive growth of international trade would render a general war impossible. As historian Nial Ferguson noted, anti-militarism was politically ascendant throughout Europe, and the prospect of war looked slim...