Word: seamless
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Because the University remains free from specific threats, Vautin says, the current role of emergency management is about “being seamless and barely visible...
...from-seamless Undergraduate Council elections marked this past fall. The general election was marred by complaints of disenfranchisement, and the presidential election by the draconian reinterpretation of election bylaws by the council’s Election Commission. It is clear that this past semester’s commission has not served voters or candidates very well. When Commission Chair David I. Monteiro ’04 submits his recap of fall elections in the next few weeks, the council’s new leadership should use these election fiascoes as an opportunity to reevaluate both the rules governing elections...
...electrospun clothing. The last involves a process in which a solution is charged with high-voltage electricity and spun, like cotton candy, onto a form. Military scientists want to use the process to custom-make instant haz-mat suits by spraying sealants onto clothing. But the prospects for nonwoven, seamless civilian clothing are tantalizing...
...McKellen) clinging to a precipice and falling, perhaps to his doom. Then, on with the story! That's how sure of himself Jackson is. His grand notion was always to film the entire trilogy in one gigantic 15-month shoot, and to make of it three separate but seamless movies, each one minutely, imaginatively faithful to Tolkien. That ambition cost him the backing of Miramax Films and other potential sponsors, loath to give $310 million to a New Zealand director with a few oddball critical successes but no mainstream hits. Jackson's confidence has been validated by the box-office...
...George W. Bush sees politics and government as seamless; his whole vision of the presidency intertwines the two, and so it makes sense that he keeps his political adviser right next to him. Rather than distance himself from Rove after the 2000 election by sending him to run the R.N.C. or set up shop as an outside consultant, Bush brought him into the West Wing. There are few decisions, from tax cuts to judicial nominations to human cloning, in which Rove is not directly involved. "It's not a real meeting if Karl isn't there," says a senior member...