Word: windowed
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...this next couple of years are our window of opportunity for a carefully considered reset. The untenable status quo, most obviously and critically in how we use energy and pay for health care and educate our citizens, but also in the ways we define contentment, are not immutable givens. Rather, they are the results of choices we made and habits we acquired and systems we built back in the 20th century. Different, 21st century choices are now available to us. Dysfunction and profligacy aren't inevitable, and the American tendency to magical thinking can be kept in check. The diehard...
...resign in March for leading the ruling 13-party Barisan Nasional coalition to its worst ever performance in 2008 polls. The mysterious death of an opposition political aide in July has compounded critics' concerns. In mid-July Teoh Beng Hock, 30, was found dead beneath the 14th story window of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission offfices after a late night interrogation by officers, sparking national outrage. Opposition lawmakers blame the death on the MACC and accuse the authorities of unleashing the commission against them. Veteran opposition lawmaker Lim Kit Siang is demanding a Royal Commission of Inquiry into...
...worked as a doorman in East Berlin. He was also a die-hard Pink Floyd fan and determined to get close enough to the Wall to hear the concert. He wound his way through backstreets to a building near the Wall and climbed onto the roof from a window in the building's attic. Yet despite his efforts, he could hardly hear a thing. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Michael Jackson...
...college admissions process in America, while vastly overcomplicated, contrasts starkly with the narrow, month-long window in India, the date from which HSC (the 12th standard Board examination) results are released and the day college classes begin. In a nearly meritocratic fashion, colleges still award seats based on HSC results alone. But, of course, no system is impervious, and wrinkles like reserved seats for scheduled castes (effectively quota-based affirmative action), connections, and under-the-table payments can compensate for inadequate scores (although most do not have access to such advantages). With similar dialogue on high-stakes testing in America...
...Basij did not hesitate to go after the protest cars. The back window of one black sedan had been completely smashed in; other cars were abandoned after similar attacks. A group of Basij were seen trying to bash in the window of one car, but the gang retreated because there were too many other cars around. One of the Basij, however, reappeared later holding a license plate in his hand, almost certainly to help identify the owner of the offending...