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Word: unites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...registered voters under the age of 40 did not show up at the polls in 2004. "It's on the margins, but all of these states are going to be won or lost on the margins. We think we're going to have an exceptional field goal unit, and so we think we can win a lot of close races." In other words: Calm down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plouffe to Democrats: Calm Down | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

...blood racing by blowing stuff up. Handmade art is on the wane; machine art is here to stay. The gentle crafts of acting, of sculpting witty dialogue, of a director's subtle sense of where to lead the camera and the audience may be in decline, but the second-unit guys and stuntmen and CGI wizards are at the top of their game. It's not the highest form of the seventh art, but it is one of the original definitions of the medium to make cinema kinetic, to make movies move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Race: Worth a Test Drive | 8/24/2008 | See Source »

...group was asked to solve anagrams for four minutes before making their choice. (The idea was to distract the students' conscious mind, and allow their unconscious to tackle the apartment decision.) The researchers found that in every case, the students were equally likely to choose Flat B, the only unit with an equal balance of pros and cons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gut Decisions May Not Be Smart | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...Documents obtained by TIME show that the Department of Community Development in W.A. was so concerned about the case that it sought a report on it in the mid-1990s. TIME has also been told that after the traumatic experience nobody in the state, including the government adoption unit, would deal with MSS. W.A. Child Protection director general Terry Murphy says he is unable to comment on the case until archived files are recovered, but notes: "We are aware that MSS are not currently licensed by the Central Authority in India to undertake inter-country adoptions." Elsewhere in Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Children | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...overseas. And in most cases the surrender forms were signed by the same two witnesses. The inspectors also found that MSS was double-dipping on government funding, taking money from two sources for the same group of children. Key documents on child admissions were missing. Children listed at one unit did not exist, while children in other units had no records. Many children were neglected, undernourished and had diarrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Children | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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