Word: sheerly
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...DaimlerChrysler team aims to adopt a similar strategy. But this alliance will work on a different strategic level than do most other globalization efforts. First and foremost, the sheer size and scope of this merger all but assures mutual survival in ongoing global consolidation. Along with Ford, Toyota and GM, DaimlerChrysler will be a first-tier, all-world player...
...were a B-list crooner, the sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your-ear juxtapositions of hip-hop and electronica, may find something bracing in the sheer sound of these records, a pleasing shiver in hearing Parker's acerbic horn cutting against the schmaltzy grain of massed violins. Then again, this may be a minority opinion...
High Society (1956) What the Rat Pack movies should have been: briskly plotted and musically irrepressible. A musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, with Frank joined by Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Louis Armstrong. Bing/Frank duet "Well Did You Evah" is sheer...
...astonished that Radcliffe can be thesubject of a HAA panel, and no one at Radcliffecan be aware of it," said Radcliffe Dean ofEducational Programs Tamar March. "That's not onlya lack of collegiality, but also of sheer'politesse,'" she wrote in an e-mail message...
...even a new Titanic may not be much of a match for the fleets of gigantic new ships. Then again, the sheer number of ships may be no match for the next economic downturn. Right now, that doesn't worry the industry. It's confident it can continue to increase the number of people willing to pay for their sea legs. And if worse ever comes to worst, sailing to the poorhouse will never be so luxe...