Word: shockingly
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...adults sees new technology--and the social changes it stirs--as a threat to the rightful order of things: Plato warned (correctly) that reading would be the downfall of oral tradition and memory. And every generation of teenagers embraces the freedoms and possibilities wrought by technology in ways that shock the elders: just think about what the automobile did for dating...
...thrashing of top-seeded Dartmouth on Friday night, Harvard managed five power-play goals against a Cornell penalty kill that had had not yielded a goal in its last 26 opportunities.“I’ve got to say, it was kind of a shock,” said senior winger Dan Murphy, who knocked home the third and fifth goals. But he echoed the mantra of every Crimson skater who met the media on Saturday: “throw pucks on net, and good things will happen.”Just four and a half minutes into...
...hope that we’ll see more applications from those qualified low-income students who are scared off from the sticker shock,” Cooper said...
...After an initial period of shock, complete paralysis gripped policymakers?and for an agonizingly long period the economy contracted. The initial policy reflex to raise interest rates, curb investment and dampen consumption rendered a dire situation worse, just as similar Hooverite measures had once done in the U.S. In the late 1990s, with social and political upheaval at hand, Japan was finally jolted into action. To quell a threatening run on the banks, the government declared that it would guarantee every deposit in the country, and injected trillions of yen into the financial system. Still the economy failed to respond...
...made a comeback in the third game, recovering from its shock long enough to take a hard-fought frame from the Crimson...