Word: compounding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About a fifth of the land area of Vientiane is taken up by what is called the USAID compound--the center of operations for the United States Agency for International Dement in Laos. All American aid to Laos--military or otherwise--comes under the title of USAID, due to the 1962 Geneva Agreement which forbids all foreign troops and advisors, instructors, and foreign civilians "connected with the supply of war materials...
...showed similar qualities. Despite fitful laughter, both plays have a Cassandra complex. Their common theme has been constantly drummed in recent seasons-woe is me, woe is you, woe is America. Such plays are loaded with enough dolorous symbols to break the back of Melville's whale. To compound their disadvantages, both playwrights seem wedded to the fallacy that drama is some kind of nonstop talk show...
...confronted some harsh necessities in its current European tour. Replacing the instruments and equipment that were incinerated by a fire in France was bad enough. But replacing Lead Guitarist, Singer and Songsmith Frank Zappa is something else again. He will be out for three or four months with a compound leg fracture and other injuries received when an unappreciative music lover in London jumped up and threw him off the stage...
...taking a sizable percentage of the total judgment as a fee, while individual members of the class are entitled to only a few dollars each. A major worry, voiced by Solicitor General Erwin Griswold and by Chief Justice Warren Burger, is that the increasing number of class actions will compound the problems of already overburdened courts...
They were guided back to their bench for treatment. The Premont team, with the opposition disabled by this exercise of frontier sportsmanship, completed a 55-yd. pass and kicked a field goal to win 15-14. To compound the offense, Premont school officials later sent Los Fresnos a bill for $1,200-for the damage that the angry losers caused when they tried to tear up the locker room...