Word: shatteringly
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...walk anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step in that direction. I hope that both projects will shatter the inertia, ignorance, and general apathy surrounding efficient, clean energy on campus...
...filibustering. Republicans say that they're just trying to discuss important policy problems and that Democratic leader Harry Reid has exploited a rule--known as invoking cloture--to cut off debate. So far in 2007, the Senate has voted on cloture 43 times. If that pace continues, it will shatter the record of 61 votes in a two-year Senate session, set in the 107th Congress. And ill feelings between the parties will further harden...
...street from the site of the first explosion, says he arrived at work just a half hour after a suicide bomber stepped onto a government bus ferrying Pakistan defense department employees to work. The force of the bomb was enough to sever electrical lines, disrupt phone services and shatter the mirrored plate-glass doors of Ahsan's office. His driveway was littered with "pieces of bodies," he says, but fortunately the explosion and subsequent fire did not ignite the wall of gas canisters he stores on the premises. "It was very dangerous. Thanks be to God that...
...wanted a preacher handy--like the time he talked Graham into flying to a convention with him because the weather was so bad, he thought the plane might crash. Having entered office in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination, Johnson was conscious of how a President's death can shatter a country. Long before his Administration collapsed and he announced that he would not seek a second term in 1968, Johnson privately told Graham what he was thinking. "It was in the family dining room," Graham recalled, where Johnson reviewed his family's medical history; he had had a secret...
...book, The China Fantasy, the idea that China will evolve into a democracy as its middle class grows continues to underlie the U.S.'s China policy, providing the central rationale for maintaining close ties with what is, after all, an unapologetically authoritarian regime. But China's Me generation could shatter such long-held assumptions. As the chief beneficiaries of China's economic success, young professionals have more and more tied up in preserving the status quo. The last thing they want is a populist politician winning over the country's hundreds of millions of have-nots on a rural-reform...