Word: splinteringly
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...where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where it hit, the driver dead in the backseat -- and the location of every last splinter of glass in the woods were perfectly explicable by the laws of physics...
...there any guarantee that the remaining five republics will hold together. Carried to its illogical extreme, in fact, the movement toward disintegration could splinter the former U.S.S.R. into upwards of 40, mostly mini, countries -- the 15 full republics plus some of the 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and 10 smaller autonomous areas. Most are homelands of distinct ethnic groups that cherish ambitions to become autonomous in fact as well as name...
...industry balance of power, from the sellers (agencies) to the buyers (clients). Vast changes in entertainment and other technologies since the mid-1970s have fundamentally transformed the task of delivering ad messages to U.S. consumers. The explosive growth of cable, specialized publications and other media has helped splinter the mass market into thousands of audience shards, scattering consumer attention in all directions...
...assigned a small number of animals who have separated from the main group, and almost at once she stumbles on big news. Peaceful primates? Strictly sloganeering. The chimps are capable of killing and cannibalism. Before long, she realizes that a kind of genocide is occurring, the destruction of the splinter group...
...Bush's advisers fear that if some loose combination of rebels won, they would not be able to exercise effective control over the institutions dominated by Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims -- the army, the security police and the Baath party -- that have kept Iraq together. The country could well splinter into rival fragments that might be gobbled up by neighboring Iran, Syria and Turkey, leading to instability throughout the Middle East. Or the rebels might provoke other multi-ethnic states to splinter. The Kurds, for example, have said they seek only autonomy within a federated Iraq, but American officials think...