Word: salients
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This past fall the lack of space under the jurisdiction of FAS for student group activities as well as for recreational and academic use has become an increasingly salient issue...
...Greenspan's suggestion that the worst is over made for the happy news of the day, for investors his caveat about the best being a long way off may be the more salient prediction. Because despite the recent percolations in techs from semiconductors to data storage to cell phones, there's a bit of a chill blowing across Wall Street these days. And it's already being dubbed "the Enron effect...
...plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...
...most salient barometers of a culture's well-being is its treatment of women. It is no accident that the nations with the least respect for women's rights are also the most stagnant in every other way. There will be no future for the Middle East beyond the perpetuation of its present agonies unless there is a fundamental revolution in its approach to gender and power. EDWARD FOX Toronto...
...difficult socially, but it means you just have to make more of an effort to make friends, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” he says. He admits that “At parties, when people find out I am the editor the Salient, there are always lots of groans...but as a writer, I find being a conservative a liberating thing because you are the only one saying something from that viewpoint...