Word: particularizes
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...problem with sampling beer at a brewery, sherry at a bodega or cognac at a château is that you're captive to a particular brand. You can't complain too much, of course-especially if it's free-but what if you want a broader education that allows you to explore all the varieties of that beverage, regardless of who makes it? Increasingly, you're in luck...
...close as they are, the three directors do not share any particular aesthetic; they'd never devise a Dogme-style manifesto of belligerent minimalism. Their rule is No Rules...
...Arab eyes by failing to restrain Israel's bombing campaign against Lebanon last summer. Her refusal to negotiate with Syria baffles diplomats in the region, who believe the U.S. is missing an opportunity to peel Damascus away from its alliance with Iran. And Rice's relationship with Abbas, in particular, is frosty. A senior Palestine Liberation Organization official who has sat in on meetings between the two says, "She acts like a school headmistress, telling her student in a commanding tone to do this or don't do that...
...were students in every aisle with spreadsheets, writing down ISBN numbers,” he said. “The ISBN is a lot of work to get. It’s almost intellectual property.” The process of isolating the appropriate ISBN number for a particular course textbook, the manager said, involves multiple phone calls to professors and publishers. Student-set prices would not reflect the time and resources necessary to obtain the ISBN. This undercutting, he added, would be injurious to other students, who would have to deal with tightened restrictions on textbook returns. Hadfield, however...
...spacious office is filled with props: an arm from Saddam Hussein's chair, World War I medals awarded to Warner's father, a copy of the resolution Warner wrote authorizing the first Gulf War. History is never far from Warner's mind. "The decisions I'm making on this particular issue are among the most important I've made in 29 years in this institution," he says...