Word: robustly
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...sometimes Academy members look beyond the numbers and at The Man: Clint Eastwood, at 76 the industry's most active and cherished elder statesmen. The Japanese-language Iwo Jima has cadged only $2.4 million in North America (though it's earned a robust $38.7 million in Japan). No matter that civilians haven't roused themselves to see Iwo Jima. The Academy can't help loving that...
...Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, when two would-be mayoral rivals, Congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr. and Luis Guttierez, decided it could be a lot more fun to stay in Washington. Political insiders have also suggested that even these ballyhooed potential opponents might not have had campaign operations robust enough or financially equipped to overtake the Daley machine...
...former, there was significantly greater activation in a brain network linked to empathy and maternal love. Connections from the frontal regions, so active during compassion meditation, to the brain's emotional regions seemed to become stronger with more years of meditation practice, as if the brain had forged more robust connections between thinking and feeling...
...amygdala sends out a crackle of signals to the rest of the brain. Some of them put the senses on high alert, ready to deal with a threat. But these signals also tell the neurons that any memories recorded in the next few minutes need to be especially robust. One piece of evidence for this scenario: Lawrence Cahill, a colleague of McGaugh's at Irvine, showed subjects emotionally arousing film clips, simultaneously gauging the activity of their amygdalae using positron-emission tomography (PET) scans. Three weeks later, he gave the subjects a surprise memory quiz. The amount of amygdala activity...
...With world events largely beyond control, tackle a robust agenda at home. Bush plans an ambitious energy initiative that could include the extension of tougher fuel-economy standards for light trucks to all vehicles, along with a major expansion of research and development of alternatives...