Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...going your own way and having your own way. Suddenly an accident immobilizes you in bed. There is almost nothing you can do for yourself. All of us have at least briefly tasted the anxiety of this situation, so we can sympathize with romance novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), flat on his back with two broken legs, a broken arm and multiple cuts and contusions, products of a car accident on a slippery mountain road during a blizzard...
Statewide, California has some 800 bonded wineries, and the industry employs nearly 120,000 people. Last year California winemaking generated $6 billion in retail sales. This year wine sales nationwide are flat, but vintners argue that while people may be drinking less, they're drinking better. According to a survey by Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco investment firm, sales of California's premium wines have increased an average of 19.6% a year over the past five years. At the peak of the scale, California's ultra-premiums command prices that come close to matching those of Europe's best. Diamond...
...instructor will spend time familiarizing you with the feeling of your equipment. You'll walk around on a flat surface with your skis on, just to understand that feeling. You'll then start off on an easy slope, which should build your confidence as you work up to higher levels. After your lesson, you'll want to work on reinforcing what you've just learned. Don't get cocky and take "the wall." You will only be developing "survival" techniques to compensate for things you haven't learned yet. This will lead to bad habits, which are hard to break...
Above all, Britons can expect some relief from the hated poll tax, a local levy instituted by Thatcher to replace the property tax. It is a flat tax on everyone in a local community, regardless of each person's income; the amount is decided by the local community, based on its financial needs. Thatcher fervently believed the old tax should be dumped because it affected only property owners, but the new assessment exacted the same amount from rich and poor alike. Nothing except perhaps Thatcher's personality provoked so much anti-Conservative sentiment among voters. The poor were as angry...
Plagiarism at least proclaims that some written words are valuable enough to steal. If the language is magnificent, the sin is comprehensible: the plagiarist could not resist. But what if the borrowed stuff is a flat, lifeless mess -- the road kill of passing ideas? In that case there is less risk, but surely no joy at all. (Does the plagiarist ever feel joy?) Safer to steal the duller stones. None but the dreariest specialists will remember them or sift for them in the muck...