Word: staled
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FOUR: SLOW INNOVATION The mobile carriers have maintained unchallenged dominance over their markets - and their customers. That's allowed them to preserve their potpourri of fees and to go slow on innovation, thus the stale approach to voice-mail and other services. Google recently proposed an auction system that would enable new players to buy into the wireless spectrum, an idea that could open the door to the sort of competition in the mobile world that enabled the high-speed access offered by better Internet Service Providers to topple AOL's old stranglehold on its customers. The carriers argue that...
...president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, included the words peculiar, laughable, nonsense and offensive. (Poetry, to its credit, printed most of the letter.) "I can name 20 exciting poets writing today in one breath, and, I bet, so can you," wrote a blogger. "Perhaps what has gone stale is Barr's reading of contemporary poetry...
...still not rare. Hundreds of illegal immigrants stay here for weeks or even months, sleeping outdoors through summer rainstorms and winter cold, until they succeed or give up and head elsewhere. Khodadadi's shelter is one of dozens hidden amid the dunes strewn with cigarette boxes, old shoes, stale food and human waste. Others camp in the city, cooking on open fires and bedding down under bridges. In a report last November, the French aid organization Médecins du Monde said illnesses in Calais were widespread and sanitation extremely poor. Yet like Khodadadi, many see Calais as an essential...
...Prague paparazzi frenzy is driven by cutthroat competition. Seventeen years after the fall of communism, Czechs no longer fear for the fate of their democracy and many have long since tired of reading about stale politics. So, the mainstream newspapers have gone soft, and the yellow press has flourished. "We have three tabloid dailies and they are fighting for survival," says Ondrej Hoeppner, a former editor of the fourth gossip sheet that had already succumbed...
...have been scanned and enlarged to the size of a splayed broadsheet for the exhibition. Alas, the digitization touches even the most obscure relics of the analog age.The prints alternate irregularly between mere curio and sublime image. In the poorest cases, the half-photograph, half-paintings are off-kilter, stale, seemingly torn from the pages of a coloring book. Naturalism in “Vanished Kingdoms” is as distant as Tibet: while the colorists may have been familiar with the places the Wulsins visited, the workshop was far, far away from the photographs’ referents. In addition...