Word: view
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...technology of streaming video on the Internet allows a student to view from any point in the lecture without wasting time with fast-forward or rewind. Granted, streaming video over the Internet has not yet matched the quality of VHS video. But the sound comes through clear as could be, and the drawings on the blackboard are accurate, even if it is after a few second delay...
Spread betting first hove into view in the mid-1970s, when a British sports bookmaker--betting is legal in Britain--devised an esoteric, high-risk means of gambling on the future of market indices. Instead of betting the fixed odds of a victory, a fan can bet the point spread on a vast array of future movements; today bets can be made on just about any indicator, including indices, share prices, currencies and commodities. Though spread betting occasionally looks the same as dabbling in futures markets, typically the bets are smaller and more specialized, an attraction for the individual investor...
...activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention of President-elect Bush's foreign policy team is to formulate policy on the basis of a more clearly defined U.S. national interest, and that may make the new administration more inclined to view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a problem to be managed, rather than one that is within Washington's power or scope of responsibility to resolve...
...boy’s transition, bucked by his high test scores, from his multiethnic Bronx school to a prestigious Manhattan academy for snotty rich kids. Of course, this new school embraces the worst tendencies of the privileged class; appearance over substance is their collective lifestyle. Rich treats this view with uncomfortable unsubtlety, at one point even permitting a basketball teammate of Jamal’s to sneer at him, “You may think we’re the same, but we’re not.” Van Sant follows suit, photographing a faculty-student function through...
...Another, more cynical view holds that the governor never really proved himself as a "uniter" - that bipartisanship occurred naturally because there simply was no strong factional feeling in the first place. After all, Texas has a long tradition of a Democratic Party much different from the rest of the country. It's in part a remnant of the conservative Southern Democrats of old and partly the result of Texans seeing themselves as a state apart. As one political analyst told CNN Tuesday night, "Texas Democrats are like Texas Republicans wearing a thin layer of paint." Leadership in both parties...