Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Office? Didn’t they know I was finally graduating from Harvard? They must have forgotten. Otherwise, they would have called to say, “Hello, Ms. Wilf, we are thrilled that you are finally graduating from Harvard. There’s been a terrible vacuum here for the past four years. How soon can you be here...
...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum.”At this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant...
...Civil administrators find themselves especially vulnerable in the security vacuum. Last week, the car of a woman administrator in Lashkargha Province came under attack in an apparent assassination attempt, in which her assistant was killed. The survivors were crying for help from the police, she said, but no one came. And that experience of the absence of local law enforcement, so common in southern Afghanistan, has undermined the confidence of residents that the government is in control...
...future test in P Tunnel will send a blast of radiation through a vacuum- tight steel casing to simulate a nuclear explosion 300 miles deep in space. Parts of the tunnel will collapse, and tons of irradiated rock will hurtle through the pipe, but the explosion should remain contained, thanks to seven giant doors. The last barrier, a mile distant, is a gas-sealed door made to withstand temperatures of 500 degrees F and pressures...
...officially atheist Communist Party couldn't agree more. As the country tackles the negative side effects of two decades of unfettered economic growth-most notably a growing urban-rural income divide and burgeoning social unrest-Beijing's leaders are looking to soothe the masses by filling a spiritual vacuum left by the demise of Marxist ideology. In landmark comments earlier this month, China's top religious official, Ye Xiaowen, rejected decades of state ambivalence toward religion by telling the state's Xinhua News Agency that "religion is one of the important social forces from which China draws strength." Ye singled...