Word: thrusting
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...enter North Korea from China. Hopefully, the immediacy of this most recent crisis will make China’s surreptitious support for the North Korea—and other nuclear hopefuls, such as Iran—increasingly untenable. China’s relationship with North Korea has now been thrust into the spotlight, potentially laying the groundwork for more meaningful resolutions than have been achieved in the past. Largely isolated from the rest of the international community, North Korea depends on China’s extensive economic cooperation for any semblance of stability. China has a strong incentive...
...very consciousness it tries to create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts the names, faces, and personal stories of women who have had abortions. The legal defense of abortion rests on a strong veil between the public and private. Yet Ms. Magazine relishes in thrusting these women into the spotlight. Moderate pro-choicers everywhere should be embarrassed. Ms. Magazine celebrates abortion as a liberating act of feminism, a truly revolutionary tenor to strike even amidst the cacophonous abortion debates. Most Americans—pro-life and pro-choice—don’t like abortion...
...Thrust into an environment that demanded we claw toward an exalted few, genuine interest was a major casualty. With name tags and routine attempts at small talk, we were asked questions about where we were from...
...difficult as it is for Noah to be a friend and teacher at the same time, Noah also feels as if he has been thrust into a parental position. To make up for Dr. Thayer’s disregard for her daughter, Noah tries to expose Tuscany to a larger world than the hot clubs and hot 30-year-old men in New York City. Eventually, like the hired tutors of the Jane Austen era, Noah becomes Tuscany’s full time teacher...
...What was the thinking in picking these particular partners? Each of them represents a different strategic thrust. In Dell's case, if you look at the demographic of who they sell to, they're heavy Google users, so they were a logical big partner for software distribution for us. In the case of MySpace, it's generally well known that they are the breakout in social networks. Everybody's moving to MySpace, basically. And all the numbers say that their growth rate is much higher than anybody else's. They're much, much larger than the others. Intuit has something...