I was miffed at Rick for his behavior. I was miffed at the coach, not for his naivete of deafness, but for his arrogance, which converted his ignorance to stupidity.

A network of health care facilities was gradually established, first by creating district health posts in the liberated areas, followed by central hospitals at the provincial and regional level, as well as mobile and semimobile units that could reach a larger number of people.

On the basis of runoff coefficients based on land-use, slopes, and soil properties, Popescu et al. (2004) proposed an original method for quantifying a lateral “dangerosity” coefficient, taking into account how easily infiltration can occur in the considered pixel for a contaminant originating from another surface location in the catchment. This lateral dangerosity accounting for the lateral impact of a contamination is combined to a direct dangerosity accounting for the direct impact.

Sometimes, the intellectual snobism gets a little heavy for my taste.