Word: towardness
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...We’re taking a very proactive attitude toward it. We want to have a hands-on model—a series of meetings that engage the community in terms of what qualities the new superintendent should have, as well as a process to engage some of the members of the community to actually participate in some panels that will screen the candidates...
...group of U.S. Airborne Rangers running an exercise] waited at the departure airfield, I looked out the back of the plane and watched two late 1970s pickup trucks hurrying toward us. The men in the trucks were strikingly different than the uniformed Rangers all around me. Some were much older, some had short, well-groomed hair, while a few had very long hair that blew in the wind. Others wore long and thick mustaches or goatees. The mystery men grabbed small black bags from the truck, walked on to the plane, and took seats on the cold metal flooring without...
...upgrade, Sonos added 15,000 Internet radio stations as well as the music-discovery services Pandora and Last.fm. So now, I can listen to my old favorite radio station, WFUV, in New York, even though I live in California. I think stuff like this will go a long way toward saving old-fashioned radio stations...
...government's resources more effectively. National security experts say that the whole premise of NSA domestic spying and data-mining is junk science. It's the worst of both worlds: the government is being bogged down listening to communications between innocent people, and they're not channeling resources toward those who really act in a suspicious manner. Law enforcement and security experts criticize demographic profiling for the same reasons...
...part of Prince William is old Virginia, rural horse country dotted with estates and polo fields. This end of the county helps make it the ninth richest in the U.S.; if the whole region were so wealthy, McCain would have less to worry about. But as you head east toward Washington, the antebellum mansions turn into McMansions, then give way to middle-class row houses whose shiny blue roofs gleam through the trees from Prince William Highway like giant Lego plantations...