Word: kitchened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...salary rise to $115,000 a year. Raphaely, now 43, remained upbeat when the tech bubble began to leak air and he was reassigned to the Miami headquarters of the manufacturer of computer and cell-phone parts. He and his wife Wendy bought a condo and renovated the kitchen. He didn't panic when he and several other Raltron employees had their pay cut 10% in the fall of 2001 and another 10% the following spring. "We were hoping things would get better," Tod says. "So we continued to trudge on." But last fall Raltron slashed wages a third time...
...bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanad...
...lots of thoughtful details. To prevent the hallway in the bridge section from seeming too long, the architects staggered the wall panels and put windows at the far points—like lights at the end of the tunnel. The interiors of the apartments are bright as well. The kitchen cabinets are light-colored wood laminate, an elegant alternative to Formica or some other cheap material. The floors are cork, a natural material matched by cork trees that will be integrated in the landscaping below. My only complaint would be that in the mid-rise, there are no corner windows...
...have the loudest bangs, the coolest aliens and the most gore. Not everyone in the industry has their head buried in the sandbox like this. The best-selling game of all time is The Sims, which took as its subject matter the most mundane aspects of life-wallpapering the kitchen, picking up the newspaper, going to the bathroom. But there is a strong element of conformity at E3 towards traditional adolescent fare, and towards incorporating the most realistic-looking software around. (This year's most overused word was "physics," as in "that first-person shooter has great physics" - meaning people...
...looting of their museums and blaming the coalition troops for not protecting them. But if the relics and art objects were so dear to Iraqis, why didn't they do more to protect them? I saw pictures of people in Baghdad carting off anything and everything--including the kitchen sink--with huge grins on their faces. Although the loss of antiquities is tragic, it was the Iraqis who destroyed the record of their history. The U.S. came to give them a future. Spare me the crocodile tears and pointing fingers. MURPHY CARPENTER Charlotte...