Word: shallower
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...shuts down the opportunity to do anything productive to reduce our dependence on foreign oil." Oil companies are particularly disappointed to lose a "stovepipe" portion of the area that extended straight up toward Mobile and the tip of the Florida panhandle, thought to contain rich natural-gas deposits in shallow water...
...tower is built directly on an ancient riverbed of soft, sandy soil, and the foundation is shallow for a structure that weighs 32 million lbs. (14,500 metric tons...
...remarkably candid summation, a senior White House official told the New York Times last week that "the common European perception (of President Bush) is of a shallow, arrogant, gun- loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon." On top of that, Bush arrives the day after the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and capital punishment in the European mind makes the U.S. something of a moral leper. Still, Bush's aides believe the President's affable persona will disarm European skeptics...
Owners of marine parks and dolphin shows claim to be educating the public. But about what? Certainly not about a dolphin's natural habitat. It is not natural for a dolphin to swim in circles in a man-made tank, exposed to loud music; shallow, chemically treated water; and humans. It is not natural for a hungry dolphin to play basketball, tail-walk, sing or dance just to get a dead fish. Buying a ticket to see or play with a captive dolphin is what increases the demand for their capture and subsequently their death...
...rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abattoir with the volume turned up. Kennedy? "Jack got what he deserved. He got whacked before the sex got stale and everyone saw him for what he was." Clinton? "I hate him with a biblical passion. He is monstrous and shallow, a cold, manipulative man with a warm front, infantile with women...I would never have done Monica." American innocence? "This preposterous notion that Americans are innocent when this country is based on land grabs, slavery and slaughter of indigenous people. Are you insane...