Word: sectionalism
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...likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections.” But the coverage it has received consists only of inaudible whisperings around the margins of the media establishment: one article in the International section of The New York Times, some rustlings on the internet, and a sea of dumb silence surrounding...
...membership is also dwindling. IG Metall, the metalworkers' union, has lost around 25% of its members in the past decade. In Duisburg, the last big test came in 1987, when steelmaker Krupp (which has since merged with former rival Thyssen) decided to shut down its plant in the Rheinhausen section of the city. For almost six months, steelworkers - joined by local students, miners, shopkeepers and police officers - demonstrated to save the plant. The workers lost and Krupp sold the plant to China...
...People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg's Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication in Sweden. "They are read by young people, immigrants, the unemployed and people with low income. This is very positive." And free news doesn't necessarily mean second-hand news...
...pace of the book also changes abruptly. After a long narrative section the book suddenly stops cold for 15 pages while it compares passages of the French book and Protocols (which, like most extremist tracts, makes for tediously dull reading.) Subtlety and complexity have been hijacked by good intentions...
...GPAs. There are, in this modern era of curved grades carefully designed to hide their obvious inflation from prying eyes, precious few ways left to do this. One could, of course, study harder—write a better paper, read even the sourcebook articles that have been overlooked in section and so on—but this seems like an option for saps and people trying to make it into Phi Beta Kappa. Still, I could come up with only one alternative: if I’m not going to be studying more, I have to do my best...