Word: utterness
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...Canadian-style socialization would be, in a perfect world, a very good idea. But in a world with a powerful Republican party, it is an utter impossibility. (Oddly enough, corporate America will probably back the more radical plan--companies are paying so much for health care that anything that shifts costs from them would be an improvement...
...Union to "defend the constitution." He speaks often now about the importance of zakonnost -- legality -- in the aftermath of the coup. Such admonitions are of crucial importance if a law-governed state is to emerge on the territory of the shattered Union -- and Gorbachev still has the authority to utter them...
Coming to terms with the Harvard name takes a little more practice. Only our grandparents can safely utter the name of our school at a reasonable decibel level. The rest of us have to mumble, fake a sneeze or hedge around geographical locations (Up North, New England, Massachusetts, Boston, Cambridge, Mass Ave) until we are finally pinned down...
...cold, thin air of Hawaii's Mauna Kea, home to the world's greatest concentration of high-powered telescopes, the scientists paced, fretted and nervously tuned their instruments. Night is darker than pitch at the crest of the 4,300-meter (14,000-ft.) dead volcano. In that utter blackness, the ultimate sun worshipers waited for the day that would dawn not once but twice...
Audiences in Iowa, where the first nominating caucuses will take place next February, have rarely heard a Democratic candidate utter such heretical words. Many bob their heads in approval. If Tsongas seems bland, his words are not. Ten years ago, he explains, he made similar speeches but no one listened. "There are moments in history when ideas catch fire," Tsongas says. "Back then I lit a match and nothing happened. Now gasoline is all over the floor." His own liberal voting record takes much of the sting out of the blunt talk...