Word: salient
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...almost a replay of Viet Nam's invasion of Cambodia a year ago. That was a punitive measure, aimed at subduing Cambodian terrorist activity in the Parrot's Beak salient and other border areas, and was eventually repulsed (see map). This time it was clear that Hanoi was determined to overrun the entire country, and it was eagerly cheered on by Moscow, which is supplying most of the arms and advice. Tass, which had praised the Pol Pot regime as recently as October 1977, last week excoriated it by quoting at length from Western publications critical of Cambodia...
...symbolic significance. The name John F. Kennedy evokes a spirit of public service which pervades the Kennedy School community and which the School seeks to instill in its graduates. At the Kennedy School of Government, the only school in the University to bear someone's name, names are unusually salient. Thus, we find it particularly unfortunate that the public affairs library of the Kennedy School has been named for a man who played an important role in promulgating a society whose values run contrary to the Kennedy School's and our own. Although no symbolic significance to the Engelhard Library...
...same thing had happened, I'm sure you would not have been moved to write about a "predominately white crowd." This is because the race of the participants and/or onlookers is irrelevant to the crime itself. However, in your newspaper it seems that race suddenly becomes a salient when a minority group is involved...
...personality, arap Moi could not be more different from his flamboyant, autocratic predecessor. A teetotaling, shy and straitlaced man whose most salient characteristic is an occasional flash of quick temper, he has been described as having "about as much charisma as a dry maize cob." The son of poor farmers hi the Great Rift Valley, arap Moi had by 1946 become headmaster of a government school in Kabarnet. He was one of the first Africans in Kenya to enter politics, and one of the first to be appointed to the preindependence, British-dominated national Legislative Council...
...strenuous clique and the vociferous claque, of artful pressure groups and willful activists who effectively control many things by veto and filibuster. Factions of all sizes and configurations, alike only in self-service and single-mindedness, tend to dominate virtually every salient issue of the day, be it abortion, water conservation, nuclear power or the location of bridges and expressways. Draw an issue anywhere and contenders will rally on both sides, or several sides, shouting up influence out of all proportion to their numbers. These days every political and social issue tends to be seen as a consuming cause...