Word: underbrush
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...News sent me off to bed with the urgent information that Washington D.C. police, scouring Rock Creek Park, have found an old license plate. A few days ago, surrounded by camera crews swarming through the underbrush, a cop found a dog bone...
...Welch's most significant contributions to GE's culture is his concept of "boundarylessness." After the layoffs, Welch cleared out the underbrush in his remaining businesses by streamlining and de-bureaucratizing them. He reduced to five the layers of management that exist between the factory floor and his office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York...
...particulars of a grove (Merriam-Webster: "a small wood without underbrush") are not immediate. How many trees are necessary, and of what kind; how old, how spreading? How must they give shade, and how look in the rain? We have no olive trees in Cambridge, and few citizens regularly in togas; why, then, should the University stand on ceremony as regards an actual tree...
...land deal, the firing of the White House travel office and alleged misuse of fbi personnel files. Ray issued press releases clearing the President and First Lady of criminal wrongdoing--and made sure he finished several weeks before Election Day in Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate. "The underbrush had to be cleared away," Ray told TIME...
...however, explanations are coming. As scientists hack deeper into the underbrush of the human genome, they are at last beginning to understand the genetics of weight regulation--and how the whole system can go awry. With that understanding, they believe, it may be possible to develop drugs that do the job balky genes fail to do--controlling a problem that decades of fad diets and self-help books have never solved. Says molecular biologist Jeffrey Friedman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University in New York City: "Genomics will identify the players in this system, eventually leading...