Word: umbrellaism
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...center gives an umbrella net and integrates special disciplines within a global framework in addition to opening up the field to non-specialists,” Necipoglu says...
Security concerns were the grounds on which a federal court denied United for Peace and Justice—the umbrella group that planned the event—a permit to march on Saturday...
...Admirers of his early Hong Kong films will recognize several of Chan's self-homages. His versatility with an umbrella echoes the great battle on a bus in Police Story. The juggling act Chon forces two thugs to perform with several of their boss' expensive vases is reminiscent of Chan's balancing acts in Drunken Master, and a teeming, imaginatively staged free-for-all in an outdoor market recalls Drunken Master II. At the end, when our heroes dangle from Big Ben's giant minute hand, Chan connoisseurs will whisper, "Ah yes. Project...
...already claimed 150,000 lives. The group behind the El Nogal bombing and the Caquetá killings - the Marxist, 18,000-member Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the country's largest guerrilla army - has been branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department (as has the A.U.C., an umbrella group of vicious right-wing paramilitary armies, and a smaller leftist group known as the E.L.N.). Last week, Uribe convinced the U.N. Security Council to label them as such; and the usually timid Organization of American States pledged to help weaken the FARC, whose land-reform ideology has been poisoned...
Fuerza Latina has enlisted the support of other Latino groups at Harvard, such as Concilio Latino, an umbrella organization of Latin-American groups...