Word: vacuums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...typical college freshman expects one thing more than anything else in his or her new surroundings: independence. Dorm life and ‘optional lectures’ create a vacuum in which to balance work and personal time. How to spend our time is a challenging choice that students are certainly trusted to make...
...that we often only witness them as a collection of pixels behind a glass screen, they’re human too, and we must understand them as such. From the members of the press, all the way up to the skybox, the sporting world is not its own little vacuum within our TV screen like we often believe...
...China Guardian, for one, focuses on the Chinese domestic market. Osian's does the same in India. For now, most of the new players are sticking to the art market's lower and middle tiers to avoid competing with Sotheby's or Christie's. "We're just filling a vacuum in the market," Andreas says. But others are spoiling for a fight. "My dream is for Asia to have her own Christie's and Sotheby's," says Daniel Komala, CEO of Jakarta-based auctioneers Larasati. He says that the firm will open salesrooms in Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Dubai within...
...election has become mired in squabbles over the process of amending the constitution to allow Suleiman to move directly into the presidential palace, forgoing the customary two-year cooling-off period for senior civil servants. The election has been rescheduled for December 17, although analysts suspect that the presidential vacuum could continue until at least into the New Year...
...last poses the question, “Where do we go from here?” Throughout, Gomes paints the teachings of Jesus in the radical light in which contemporaries would have viewed them, portraying Jesus as something of a socialist. Gomes doesn’t write in a vacuum, however, and he includes numerous mentions of current socio-political situations—the war in Iraq, Sept. 11, homophobia, and race relations—to convey how Jesus’s teachings apply to the modern world.Yet where Gomes’s book falls short...