Word: scatteredness
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Resistance to Franco and his order is generally scattered. Within Spain occasional bombs are thrown, dramatizing that opposition sentiment continues to exist, but government repression and political apathy combine to keep underground groups small and ineffective. In recent years only the illegal miners' unions have succeeded to any degree in...
At last week's big show, well over half of the Oscar nominees were not there. Hollywood simply is not one place any more. It is now an earth-circling synecdoche. Its personnel are too far scattered to fly to Los Angeles on the mere chance that they might...
This problem, however, is highly complex. We feel that one person structured into the Association simply could not handle all, or even most, of the situations which would benefit from the attention of a professional. What is required in these cases is an understanding of the particular problem by the...
Martinez' head lamp. In the nick of time, he flung the lamp to the ground, and the party scattered into the bush. Says Martinez: "I'm still shuddering."
A Few More Tons. With their stock cheaper and more plentiful after a split, most companies usually find themselves with more stockholders. They like this because widely scattered ownership gives more stability to the stock price and allows it to reflect the company's earnings performance more precisely, rather...