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Monday, January 27, 2003 |
capacious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. capacious [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Monday January 27, 2003
capacious kuh-PAY-shuhs, adjective:
Able to contain much; roomy; spacious.
Litter was picked up non stop during the week (mostly by that nice governor with the capacious pockets).
--Faysal Mikdadi, "'Why shouldn't it be like this all the time?'" The Guardian, September 2, 2002
Out of those capacious receptacles he brought forth a small bottle of Scotch whiskey, a lemon, and some lump sugar.
--Ellen M. Calder, "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman," The Atlantic, June 1907
Is it worth pointing out that the boot seems remarkably capacious for a little car?
--Giles Smith, "Er, what's the sixth gear for?" The Guardian, January 8, 2002
Capacious is derived from Latin capax, capac-, "able to hold or contain."
Synonyms: ample, commodious, roomy, spacious, voluminous. Find more at Thesaurus.com.
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Minnesota nurses seek slowdown in smallpox program
ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Nurses Association has joined the American Nurses Association in urging a more cautious effort in the development of a national vaccination program against smallpox.
Workday Minnesota
Whose body is it anyway? There's just too much evidence that the "science" of vaccination is being driven by "profit."
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Independent Media Center
 WSF III Begins in Festivity
It was certainly a tale of two cities on Thursday, January 23. As members of the Bush administration and other corporate globalizers tried to celebrate the "best of times" in the snowy heights of Davos, Switzerland, representatives of 5,480 organizations from over 126 countries gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil at the World Social Forum to formulate alternatives to some of the "worst of times" being suffered around the globe today. About 100,000 people are expected to come to Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil this weekend. The process is already moving forward, as it has been decided that next year's forum will be held in India.
Read: entire article | The View from Porto Alegre | special report from Tallahassee-Red Hills IMC
Reports about the Forum are being sent to numerous IMC websites, including Western Mass [ 1 ], Portland [ 1 | 2 ], Maine [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ], and Houston [ 1 | 2 ].
[ CMI Brasil | Switzerland IMC | infoposible.org ]
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January 27, 1850
Samuel Gompers, the first president of the American Federation of Labor, was born in London, England. He emigrated to the United States as a youth. A cigarmaker by trade, Gompers received some of the education that shaped his approach to unionism through his work on the shop floor, including being a "reader" to other cigarmakers as they worked. |
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