Word: subjection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...billboard has gone up just below Dubai's World Trade Center. It features images of Dubai's more recognizable landmarks, like the sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel and Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building. They are all adornments for the subject of the billboard: Dubai's leader, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. The sheik has been rumored to have suffered significant health problems from the strain brought on by the emirate's economic woes. The billboard is meant to belie those rumors; it shows the sheik, 59, looking sharp, vibrant and healthier than ever. Behind his picture...
...that feminists can do is ensure the unencumbered expression of each ideal. In this case, feminists should accept that sexualized images in Rolling Stone and other media outlets, while certainly not neutral, are neither innately empowering nor disempowering. The prerogative to make that distinction lies only with the female subject herself...
...will provide a rigorous survey of astrophysics—addressing “everything from black holes to the Big Bang,” according to Charbonneau.The department will also offer a secondary field next year for students interested in astrophysics who do not wish to make the subject their primary concentration. PICK AND CHOOSEThe department has fashioned three new upper level courses and an observational course to give students maximum flexibility in choosing the courses they find most appealing.Astronomy 110: “Exoplanets” is for those interested in “how astronomers are finding planets...
...comprehensive review of Afghanistan policy, and Congress is discussing massive new aid - worth $1.5 billion a year for five years - for Pakistan. For U.S. officials - a group that provided a substantial part of the Times's sourcing for its story - to drop their long reticence on the subject of the ISI's duplicity at this particular juncture suggests, to some observers, an effort to put some pressure on Islamabad. "It seems like a prelude to a new strategy, which may include asking Pakistan to do something" in the province of Baluchistan, where the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is hiding...
...requirement would be much tougher limits on how much risk any financial firm could take, so that the days of making huge bets on the markets with relatively little in capital to back them up would be no more. And Geithner's plan would also for the first time subject exotic financial-derivative products, like the credit-default swaps that took down AIG, to federal oversight and market transparency...