Word: statically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static. "You worry about getting the job done," Bush said. "You let me worry about the politics and the things back here...
...original Sims sold more than 34 million copies and is by far the most successful computer game of all time. In that first version, players controlled the lives of miniature 3-D suburbanites. They were as willful and idiosyncratic as real children, yet as ageless--and ultimately static--as sitcom families. In this sequel, which is about a hundred times as detailed and animated, creator Will Wright has added the dimension of time. Your Sims grow from mewling infants to wizened crones in the space of an average 25 hours of game play, Wright says. The sudden arrival of birthday...
Kadivar has written that there are six contradictions between traditional Islamic teachings and modern norms of human rights--for example, the status of women in society. He believes the religion was meant not to be static but to be adapted to the times. "We cannot use a historical interpretation of religion in the modern world," he says. Although Kadivar does not consider himself a political activist, he admits that he is driven by a desire to undo religious despots who have hijacked the Islamic revolution. "What the people wanted was something different," he says. "Who were [the mullahs] to destroy...
...interests lie in the "why" of human behavior; in the forces within the personality that determine its actions. The new chair of dynamic and abnormal psychology which he will occupy is not to concern itself with the material of what is ordinarily considered academic psychology--sensations, perceptions, associations, the static mechanism of a mind--but rather with what might be called "purposive" psychology, human behavior and its driving forces...
Watch out, fashionistas: Playful pinks and soothing coral tones are back on the runways this spring. While, I admit, this newsflash does not threaten my thoroughly static wardrobe one bit, many will take this news as a mandate to abandon last year’s satiny and florid pastels for this year’s newest trend. But not us Harvard kids...