Word: statically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Despite all the criticism of his policy proposals, Bush is playing smart politics. The Gore camp seems to view Bush's struggle in the primaries as proof of his irreversible weakness as a candidate. But while Gore's campaign has remained static this past month--save for his almost universally derided pandering to the Cuban-American community over Elian Gonzalez--Bush's campaign has jumped aggressively into what aides say will be three solid months of policy-oriented speeches and events. First came two weeks of education initiatives, followed by his foray into health care and housing. This week Bush...
...predicted that "animation will gradually replace static images altogether...
...have a PC or Mac that sits idle at least a few hours a day, you can join the 1.7 million people who have downloaded SETI@home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...
...ooking back on Pudding history, every era has presented the club with obstacles (see ), but no time has compared with the past 30 years, which have proved devastating. For the first half of the 20th century, the Pudding remained static. The members--white males from privileged families--pulled out female garb and other outrageous costumes every year for the big show and fraternized the rest of the year on special club nights. Other than the creation of the Kroks in 1944 by a group of four guys who liked hanging out in the second floor bar, little of lasting significance...
...case to be handled privately more than Kennedy. "She feels the whole thing has gotten out of hand," he says. "By complaining informally, she hoped to stop Smith's ascent - not get him kicked out." There was no reason to pursue a formal complaint while Smith's career was static, but the implications of his pending assignment may have proved too bizarre to tolerate...