Word: surround
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...commission until Hitler took power in 1933 and fired him. Ropke went into exile in Switzerland but in the late 1940s served as a top adviser to Ludwig Erhard, architect of Germany's "economic miracle." Ropke warned of "the tendency for the increasingly centralized state of our times to surround like a parasitical vine both society and economy." In books such as A Humane Economy, he advocated a "Third Way"--neither freewheeling capitalism nor a state-run economy. He stressed "those mysterious powers of the human soul and of human society which cannot be expressed in mathematical equations...
...Japanese) 150 miles from each the coasts of both countries are not significant in themselves, but recognized ownership of the islets -- now inhabited by a lone South Korean fisherman and a small South Korean military force -- hold the key to uncontested exploitation of the rich natural resources thought to surround the island. Both Japan and Korea claimed exclusive rights to the resources today but did not mention the islands in an effort to postpone a territorial dispute...
...brings a lunch box to work, takes his turn making coffee, sits with his employees in the lunchroom. Yes, he has paid off some debts and put aside some money for his children's education, but his only real indulgence has been to buy a $3,000 surround-sound system for watching movies at home. He has watched Top Gun 12 times...
...Americana. Like the students on this campus, the bar's aesthetic hides its real purpose. While the students are, generally, a national brain trust, the Grille is actually the representation of the institutional objectification of women. After midnight, drunken final club boys start carousing intimately with the women who surround them, absorbed as they are in the myth of immediate gratification. Having taken on a life of its own, this so-very-American notion of instant recompense, having directly transferred from the consumer sphere, now dominates the sexual mores of American men. Because sports men at Harvard are more like...
...melodies are not overwhelming or aggressive. Most of the work is done by the moody atmospherics that surround the central tune: intermittent but well-used keyboards, sporadic background vocals, a distant but assured bass. This is a mature, well-crafted debut...