Word: vacuum
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...only way to ensure that such variety actually materializes is to institute a random lottery. Whether or not this is the most expeditious path to homogeneity is not the issue at this time. What is important is that the College administration not view this most recent report in a vacuum, but also consider the factors that limit its relevance...
...extent that there is a bandwagon effect, Barone says, it is unfair to blame it on polls. "People don't live in a vacuum where polls are their only access to reality," he contends. "The poll is only one of many items that gives people information to who is ahead. The media, word of mouth, neighbors, advertising, leaflets, door-to-door campaigning--all relay certain impressions to the voter," he adds...
...manuscript confirms Garcia Marquez' authority instead of questioning it, as in Donoso's book. It is easy to feel like an invisible observer in the world of One Hundred Years of Solitude but impossible to do so in Donoso's novel. And because the work's and in a vacuum, it, isolation does not induce claus trophobia...
...title points out ward and suggests a similarity between the Ventures' escape from the capital city and excursions in Casa de Campo. It suggests that the Venturas never left the city even in their isolation. The title's anchor in Madrid conveys the paradox of Donoso's pretended vacuum and stands as a monument to the art of saying something without saying...
...During their occupation, however, the Israelis had allowed Phalangist militiamen to move into areas of the Chouf previously controlled by the Druze. Fearing an outbreak of hostilities between the two factions, the U.S. urged the Israelis to delay their redeployment until the newly trained Lebanese Army could fill the vacuum. The Israelis postponed their withdrawal by only a few days. As soon as they pulled out on Sept. 4, fighting broke...