Word: scatteration
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Instead, Harvard’s expansion proposal, as it currently stands, will scatter the Charlesview families and disrupt the lives and livelihoods of the tenants by forcibly relocating them to areas farther away from jobs, neighborhood life, and public transportation. Harvard has the money and power, and so it feels entitled to the homes of poor Charlesview residents. But these residents don’t have the money or power to stand up alone to a multi-billion dollar corporation eyeing their little plot of concrete and community. That is why they have asked for student support...
...proposals (available at www.thenewuc.com) for achieving these goals, from creating a student endowment to building a virtual web portal for students to increasing departmental classes that count for Core credit. By driving after proposals that work toward definite greater ends, the New UC will build momentum and avoid the scatter-shot inaction...
...four or five" militant friends, says a juwae's first task is to scatter leaflets, crude photocopies bearing death threats or diatribes against "Siamese infidels." He quickly graduates to vandalism?for example, burning the Thai flags that villagers are ordered by the authorities to display outside their homes?and then to actual militant attacks, acting as a lookout or helping to block roads with felled trees or burning tires. Later, he might plant a bomb in a teashop or other public place, which others will remotely detonate. Later still, he might remotely detonate it himself...
...CAMPAIGN TRAIL IS NOT THE ONLY place where Bush is watching his friends scatter. Only 38% percent of Americans say they still believe his invasion of Iraq was a good idea, and 61% percent say they don't think he has a clear plan for handling the war. But Bush has lived by the political philosophy that when the crowd is against you, you just strut more boldly across the stage. That's why he held a news conference a few days ago to hug his war policy even tighter. It is there that he argued that staying the course...
...match the realities. In a final lunge toward authenticity, he forages for mushrooms in a burned-over pine forest and shoots a wild pig, a primal confrontation that briefly reduces Pollan, an inexperienced hunter, to a state of near panic as he pulls the trigger while the pigs madly scatter. But in this clearheaded and sometimes heartbroken book, that would be the only time he gets seriously confused...