Word: bombardment
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...according to importance and would not allow advertisement money to contaminate them. Repeatedly, Google chose quality of the website over potential profit; hence the mantra in the company’s Code of Conduct: “Don’t be evil.”While other websites bombard users with flashy advertisements, Google insists on Spartan simplicity. Its homepage is uncluttered, and the stress-free white background—coupled with the logo’s primary colors—emits a calm vibe. To uphold a user-friendly, inviting environment, Google sacrificed millions of dollars in profit...
...Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished,” Animal Collective’s debut album, stands as a testament to the band’s penchant for wild, digital tones, both stretched thin as paper and heaped on each other to bombard the listener with an impenetrable wall of sound...
...DIED. ALAIN BOMBARD, 80, survivalist turned politician, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1952 in a 4.2-m inflatable dinghy to prove that long sea voyages had been possible in the past without freshwater supplies; in Toulon, France. Bombard made the journey with a sextant, fishing equipment, books and a plankton filter. He survived on raw fish, seawater, and plankton, which is rich in vitamin C, and drifted into Barbados from the Canary Islands 25 kg lighter after 65 days. He later served as France's State Secretary for the Environment before being elected to the European Parliament...
...handy for stuff outside their field of expertise. In the 1980s, when the austere Ivan Lendl ruled tennis, he discovered a most satisfying use for his Australian mentor, Tony Roche. Relaxing in his hotel room before a match, Lendl hated the way his parents would call from Czechoslovakia to bombard him with tactical advice. Loath to be rude, he came upon the idea of excusing himself, then passing the phone to Roche, whose English so baffled the well-meaning callers that after a minute or two they'd gently hang...
...than their counterparts of a decade ago, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In TIME's poll, 66% of those surveyed owed more than $10,000 when they graduated, and 5% owed more than $100,000. (And this says nothing about the credit-card companies that bombard freshmen with offers for cards that students then cheerfully abuse. Demos, a public-policy group, says credit-card debt for Americans 18 to 24 more than doubled from 1992 to 2001.) The longer it takes to pay off those loans, the longer it takes twixters to achieve the financial independence...