Word: staticity
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...their relief, Buchanan was a self-canceling phenomenon. His protectionism turned off as many workers as it attracted. And coyly bigoted formulations had been embedded in his language for so long that his warnings against greedy corporate chiefs got lost in his self-produced clouds of static. But Buchanan's flourish was one more warning to Dole that his party is a breakable coalition, subject to passions its leadership can't always manage...
...definitive categorization or description of culture itself. Although once rooted, perhaps, in a celebration of essentialized identities, in attempts to preserve what the Crimson editorial calls "the disparate cultures that comprise this country," scholars of comparative race and ethnic studies have recognized the impossibility of regarding culture as static and of defining identity as a stable entity...
Thus, when The Crimson staff envisions a "synergistic whole that is greater than the sum of its ethnic components," an interaction is proposed that ideally would occur among individuals with different perspectives and not among reified representatives of monolithic, separate and static entities of culture or ethnicity. There are "common human goals" towards which we can work, but our multiple and diverse aims should not be reduced to one common desire in the name of simplicity and at the expense of both rigorous intellectual engagement and of social justice...
Soccer, along with tennis and basketball, offers the kind of global sports market that PVI is hoping to tap. What the firm's technology does best is simultaneously display different ads in different far-flung locations. For now it is sticking with static images, but according to PVI vice president Sam McCleery, moving pictures and 3-D animations are next...
Certainly I listened to Die Deutsche Welle, the German Waves, night after night struggling to understand not just the news, but poetry and folksong. But I found the BBC and Radio Moscow, in time Radio Netherlands and the static-cracked voices of new African nations, and by ninth grade I knew that other countries not only had a different slant on the news, they had different news altogether, some aimed to listeners in their former colonies and to emigrants in South America or East Africa, but most aimed at anyone who cared to caress the fine-tuning dial...