Word: seamlessness
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...money is changing football at home in Russia, too. The seamless combination of government and business has made a priority of returning the motherland to world football's highest ranks. Zenit boasts a side of national stars, including Andrei Arshavin and Pavel Pogrebnyak, whose dizzying salaries are financed by energy giant Gazprom, the team's owner. Moscow clubs Spartak and Dynamo are sponsored by their corporate patrons - also from the oil and gas sector - Yukos and Lukoil, respectively. The war chests that such firms bring to the game have led to galloping salary inflation, says midfielder Alexei Smertin...
...tops in the Ivy League. The overtime loss was followed by a double-overtime draw against Holy Cross and a comeback against lowly Princeton. The team with copious options in the attacking third was suddenly stricken with an inability to find the back of the net. What was once seamless play quickly transformed into long-ball tactics and sloppiness in the midfield. Dartmouth marched onto Ohiri Field and ended all hope of an Ivy title with a 1-0 victory. But November brought the Crimson back to life. After a harrowing October, the team—relieved from the pressure...
...integration of computers into the undergraduate experience was not seamless. Students in an introductory computer science course, Applied Math 110, had to wait hours for terminal time, making difficult problem sets even more time-consuming. In response, the students put together a petition asking for more computers...
...praiseworthy "small" film, with no professional actors, let alone stars, which showed up on the afternoon of the Competition's last day - traditionally a dumping ground - but Penn and his colleagues also saw it as a great film whose qualities could not be ignored. Penn called it "virtually a seamless film. It's everything you want film to give you." Juror Alfonso Cuaron described The Class as "high cinema you can share with a young audience...
...clever one Trust the Danes to come up with a seamless blend of style and savvy. This sleek number, in glazed white terra-cotta, was created by Claus Jensen and Henrik Holbaek (a.k.a. Copenhagen design duo Tools) for homewares store Eva Solo. It comes with entrance-hole fittings in four sizes, catering to tenants as small as wrens or as big as sparrows. Heat-reflective, it keeps the chicks from frying in summer. www. evasolo.com...