Word: salients
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Berry was right when he declared that, among the BLOHARDS, all that matters is loving the Sox. Breeding, position, intelligence, wealth-these things don?t mean much when you?re wearing a baseball cap. This salient fact was acted out, in a way, as the bus parked behind Fenway, and the unsteady BLOHARDS piled out and headed gleefully for the window to pick up tickets that had been left for them by Arthur Moscato, the estimable ticket director, and Dick Bresciani, the cherished media-relations chief. There were, presumably, some pretty bright and pretty successful people in this ragtag, slightly...
...Ghana. To his shame and disgust, he found that one of his ancestors was a slave trader, a discovery that both shook his world and, paradoxically, freed him from it. "To be honest," he acknowledges quietly, "I haven't really come to terms with it. It's a very salient daily reminder of the fact that there's no such thing as black and white, that everything we do is a kind of mixing up. Everything we do is about contradictions, really." Those contradictions, he thinks, define the world much more honestly than the singular truths he had once searched...
...paleo-” conservatives such as myself will continue to protest the changes ripping through our society, but I expect at some point in the foreseeable future, as the pace of social change escalates and “wedge issues” become ever more salient, the tensions between conservatives will boil to the surface and the movement as a whole will weaken and divide. I’d like to hold faith in the ability of people to make the right choice, as my friend Dave does, but find myself uncomforted by mankind’s previous experience...
...crowded and the QRAC is being converted into (admittedly much-needed) dance space. The USA is in the midst of an obesity crisis, and Harvard can’t spend some of that $22 billion in endowment on sufficient gym space? This issue will be salient so long as the admissions office keeps admitting—as surely it will—students who need to compete in everything, including hardbodyness...
Lesser said the issue is particularly salient because of three recent developments—an abuse of power in Texas redistricting, a Supreme Court decision that upheld a deeply partisan redistricting in Pennsylvania, and new technologies that allow demographers to accurately assess location and voting behavior. These technologies resulted in a 99 percent reelection rate for House incumbents in 2004, Lesser said...