Word: displayer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saddam hussein kicked off the year with a defiant military parade in Baghdad, startling Western military experts with a display of new missiles and refurbished tanks. He sent his deputies to Cairo and Damascus, where they upgraded Iraq's political ties and signed free-trade agreements with Egypt and Syria, key U.S. allies in the Gulf War against Saddam a decade ago. Then came last week's Arab Summit...
...post-vote news conference, Cindy McCain's eyes were wet. The two weeks of free-for-all Senate debate that her husband had warned would be no "day at the beach" had turned out to be a rather gratifying display of old-time democracy - studded with orations, marked by backroom compromise and infused for the participants with the very real drama of self-interest. These politicians weren't just rewriting law, they were performing surgery on their own success, changing the system that got them where they are today. This was a bill that truly hit them where they live...
...Many of the gadgets and gizmos that will help entertain us will be on display this week at the CeBIT trade exhibition in Hanover, Germany, which attracts more than 600,000 people each year...
...bond between Nebraska and the Trident named after it is one of the strongest any state has with a warship. Climb down into the USS Nebraska and you find it's filled with memorabilia from the state. University of Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...headlines. More and more schools around the country are implementing antibullying policies. New laws in Georgia, New Hampshire and Vermont require them, and Colorado, home to the Columbine school massacre, is debating a measure. Skeptics say such legislation is fruitless and serves merely as a platform for politicians to display their practiced empathy. But some innovative programs around the country are showing concrete results that challenge the laissez-faire mentality that, after all, kids will be kids...