Word: groundedness
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This "fab" ab fad is, of course, grounded in vanity. Unlike cardiovascular exercise which strengthens the heart, or weightlifting which enables athletes to compete at a higher level, developing the abdominal muscles offers little reward aside from physical appearance (unless your name happens to be Li Xioa-Xuang and you...
We called the space where we worked the "U", partially because it was the largest single industry in the state, partially because, as a land-grant institution, it was grounded in a populist tradition (it was for "U" and everyone, the football stadium was in the shape of a "U...
The cautious optimism that has begun to surface at major cancer-treatment centers is not grounded in any hard calculus. Despite some gains, cancer death rates remain unacceptably high (see chart), and the disease will kill 554,740 people in the U.S. this year. Rather, the optimism stems from an...
Just how high a price is a different matter. The Pentagon acknowledged that the cruise missiles homed in on only 40% of Iraq's fixed air defenses. But that equipment wasn't of much use to the grounded Iraqi air force anyway. The point of the expanded no-fly area...
Oh, and Brad's a nice guy too. He'd better be, to impress Ms. Danner: "When we heard she was going out with him, we said, 'Oh no.' But he's just a gem, very grounded and family-oriented and loving and real."