Word: vacuuming
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...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...
...VACUUM. a) Household appliance or b) space between boss's ears during discussion of maternity leave...
...special unit of the state security forces known as the Red Berets--some of whose commanders carried out the assassination--would step forward as guardian of the peace. The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule...
...have been as hard hit as Yuhuan county, where at least four riots occurred in the space of five days last week?despite there being no confirmed SARS cases in the region. For weeks, Yuhuan villagers had to rely solely on inadequate central-government information about SARS, leaving a vacuum in which unsubstantiated local scuttlebutt spread wildly. Beijing and Shanghai officials have efficiently blanketed their cities with SARS information for weeks now. But it was only after the riots started last week that Yuhuan cadres bothered to fully educate their villagers, handing out pamphlets and putting up banners proclaiming...
...free,” and there is a strongly positive general trend towards greater political freedom. As nations place a higher value on the person, more people in the world live in societies where free press, civil liberties, civic associations and political competition have replaced a fearful vacuum of civil and political rights...