Word: surprisingness
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The survey also found that more Americans not only experimented with drugs, but also tended to try pot and cocaine for the first time at a younger age compared with people in other countries. Just over 20% of Americans reported trying pot by age 15 and nearly 3% had tried...
Parsing the Pregnancy Pact Nancy Gibbs' circumscribed view of responsibility cannot be labeled surprising in a society that still castigates women and girls for their sexual behavior [July 7]. Nonetheless, she too eagerly embraces the archaic idea that the only proper way to "take responsibility for the consequences" of heterosexual...
Parsing the "Pregnancy Pact" Nancy Gibbs' circumscribed view of responsibility cannot be labeled surprising in a society that still castigates women and girls for their sexual behavior [July 7]. Yet she too eagerly embraces the archaic idea that the only proper way to "take responsibility for the consequences" of heterosexual...
Suspicions of a state raid on BP's Russian assets aren't surprising. Relations between the countries, already chilled by Britain's refusal to expel various critics of Russia's government, have been in a deep freeze since the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006...
The outcome of the G-8 summit is especially disappointing - though not surprising - to greens because there were signs in the lead-up to the summit that real progress might be made. The essential standoff in international climate negotiations is the division of responsibility between developed nations like the U.S...