Word: apparatus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rules, as they stand, encourage campaigns to misstate their campaign personnel rosters to the EC. Although an individual affiliated with a campaign or at the directive of candidates cannot send out unsolicited e-mails on the campaign’s behalf, individuals outside the official campaign apparatus can still do as they please. As such, candidates have an incentive to leave names off their campaign lists or simply deny association (otherwise unprovable) with unofficial campaign e-mailers...
...will be happy to provide information and talk to them,” Miron said of students pursuing a secondary field in economics, “but there’s not supposed to be any new, formal apparatus to deal with advising...
...Diller and Scofidio have been conceptual artists, more concerned with ideas than the objects they shape them into. Now they have made their biggest object yet, and the main idea embodies how we see. Or, as Scofidio puts it, "The building, for us, is a kind of viewing apparatus. It's a machine for seeing...
...that it can also lead us to go to the other extreme, worrying not too much but too little. Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina brought calls to build impregnable walls against such tragedies ever occurring again. But despite the vows, both New Orleans and the nation's security apparatus remain dangerously leaky. "People call these crises wake-up calls," says Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. "But they're more like snooze alarms. We get agitated for a while, and then...
...political implications. But unlike their colleagues who work with stem cells, social scientists who investigate things like Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation (not to mention a treasure trove of combinations thereof), are increasingly finding themselves looking down the barrel of the U.S. government’s homeland security apparatus...