Several decades of failed attempts to squeeze mind into matter resulted in Chalmers' famous declaration that we have a "hard problem of consciousness".
What Bear Stearns proved, Mr. Cohen said, was how quickly the fragile underpinnings of Wall Street could give way — large, technically solvent financial institutions could be brought down by a liquidity squeeze within a matter of days.
Moreover, in an age concerned with the efficient use of energy, technological improvements are squeezing human fecal matter to release every last drop of the stuff.
The feathers themselves can be contaminated with faeces, the fingers put pressure on the birds and can squeeze out more faecal matter, and the fingers can become impregnated with bacteria.
David Fincher turns his "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" into his "Ball of Fire" or "His Girl Friday": given so much written matter to squeeze into the movie, he does so at top speed, a speed so noteworthy that it takes precedence over the matter itself.
Richard Brody wrote of Fincher's approach that, "given so much written matter to squeeze into the movie, he does so at top speed, a speed so noteworthy that it takes precedence over the matter itself," and added that "watching the movie analytically, with the slow-motion and freeze-frame of a DVD player, will prove very rewarding".
Magnetic fields churned up by the swirling, superheated matter presumably squeeze the material into a beam, but astronomers had been unable to locate the focusing "lens".
That is still about 1 percent of total federal spending to be squeezed out in a matter of months.
Once I've settled on the subject, there's the small matter of squeezing the time in to write it.
That split-second flash through your brain, with an intense grip of emotion, a wave that lasts far longer, that squeezes your lungs, no matter how long ago it was.
