Word: vacuumed
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...Israeli government claim that its Defense Forces "is an ethical army" in light of such atrocities? Israel clearly timed its attacks to coincide with the vacuum of power between U.S. Presidents, banking on our indifference. And to our shame, their bet paid off, for they've again gotten away with it. Tamra Fallman, ITHACA...
...Theater is not created in a vacuum but rather speaks to both our individual and social conditions. Kenneth Tynan, the influential English theater critic, wrote: “No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.” For that reason, the goals of producing a show should be much larger than merely to create what happens onstage...
Using a pair of ions, or charged particles, group leader Christopher Monroe and his team place each in a vacuum and keep them in position with electric fields. An ultra-fast laser pulse triggers the atoms to emit photons simultaneously. If the photons interact in just the right way, their parent atoms enter a quantum state known as entanglement, in which atom B adopts the properties of atom A even though they're in separate chambers a meter apart. When A is measured, the information that had been previously encoded on it disappears in accordance with the quirky rules...
...don’t have a way to get that into commercial development, distribution, and sales, you are working a vacuum,” he said. “The medical, pharmaceutical, and device industry depends on us, and we depend on them...
...slam Bush's Americas policy as "negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in people's lives and incapable of advancing our interests in the region." Yet he also suggested that "demagogues like Chávez have stepped into the vacuum. [Their] predictable yet perilous mix of anti-American rhetoric, authoritarian government and checkbook diplomacy offers the same false promise as the tried and failed ideologies of the past...