Word: defeated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Consumers are buying gadgets with names like Phone Butler and TeleZapper to help keep unwanted salespeople at bay. But the callers keep developing new technologies to defeat the gadgets. Federal and state legislators are passing laws to tighten regulation of telemarketers. President Bush recently signed a bill authorizing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create a national do-not-call registry, which anyone can sign up for online beginning July 1 and by phone soon thereafter. Eventually the list will be merged with similar lists maintained by 30 states--a chore that may take up to two years. Companies must...
...only people who read FM are too talented for (and, therefore, disinterested in) political life, are incapable of comprehending the simple directions I’ve outlined above or have extensive criminal records. I’m confident I can defeat roughly 60 percent of FM’s readership and last time I checked that’s good enough for democracy...
...Harvard (16-8, 6-0 Ivy) won its ninth straight match with a 6-1 defeat of the Bulldogs (7-11, 2-4 Ivy) at Yale. It was the Crimson’s final tune-up before it hosts the No. 42 Brown Bears—the only other team with a perfect record in the Ivy League—in the biggest match of the season thus...
Harvard continued to cruise through its singles matches. The most closely contested match of the day occured at No. 3, where junior Cliff Nguyen rallied to defeat David Goldman...
After yesterday’s defeat, Marglin said he is considering several options...