Word: mereness
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...Almost 40% of Turks ages 20 to 29 have no vocational qualification, compared to a mere 8% of their German peers. With unskilled jobs becoming ever scarcer, unemployment among those untrained Turkish youths is more than twice the national average of 9.6%. This leads to growing frustration among the youngsters and makes many of them susceptible to political and religious extremism. In recent years, they have boosted the popularity of both fundamentalist Islamic organizations like Milli Görüs - New World Perspective - and nationalist Turkish associations...
...What do you think of Japan?" is the first question any Western celebrity arriving at Narita airport is required to answer, as though it matters what Brad Pitt or Britney Spears thinks of Japan, as though a mere glimpse of Narita's airport lounge would elicit any interesting thoughts at all. But interest is not the point here; it is a ritual, a formula. Foreign guests express their admiration, and their hosts accept these verbal tributes gracefully...
...that some readers may feel that Rosovsky’s “banality,” as he termed it, indeed reflects how they have felt here: ignored, undervalued and perhaps prisoner of one of Rosovsky’s creations, the Core program. No need to feel a mere lurking distrust from your local adviser or senior tutor or dean; one in the past had the temerity (or foolhardiness) necessary to say it outright. But to use it that way it really just an excuse: the seven principles Rosovsky proposes in his book are actually quite good insights...
...back to the theater, slightly more than a week before tonight’s opening. The hole in the ground? Merely the orchestra pit. The 20 ft. trees? They’re made of painted slats of wood attached to wires. According to Marsh, set designs went into production in November so they would be ready for Mainstage applications in December. Building the set officially started around February, though the task was complicated by the fact that all productions performing in the Loeb Drama Center share shop space. Schedules had to be coordinated. The production began setting...
...Nader?s mere presence at a meeting is enough to drive down attendance. When the University of San Diego?s Center for Public Interest Law hosted a conference last month, a dozen of the nation?s top practitioners stayed away because the keynote speaker was Nader. Michael Thorsness, a successful business trial lawyer, wrote a letter explaining his boycott. "Nader is the reason we have a sub-standard president," he explained to the center's director. "His ?campaign? was nothing more than an exercise in egomania and I, for one, will have no part of any proceeding in which...