Word: quadrants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...boutiques are marked with different icons; favorite attractions can be bookmarked and later printed out as a handy itinerary. A distance-measurement tool lets you count the footsteps from Rome's Spanish Steps to the Trevi Fountain without leaving your chair, while Schmap's listings update to match whatever quadrant of the city you're looking at, so you don't have to comb through bistros in Brooklyn while searching for Chinese food on New York City's Upper West Side. Schmap adds a slew of new city guides every month - users download 18,000 of them...
...vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second) is far less arbitrary of a unit than a yard. (Then again, to be fair, the meter was originally defined as “one ten-millionth of the length of the earth’s meridian along a quadrant...
...Guesswork,” one regional scout for an American League team told me. “Complete guesswork.” Scouts responsible for an entire quadrant of the country can’t follow the Chris Schutts of the world around for much of the season, so this might be the only chance they get to see him in game action...
...just not true," says Robert Arnott, who manages $15 billion for institutional investors at First Quadrant L.P. in Pasadena, Calif. "The more money that companies retain to invest in the future, the worse their future turns out to be." Consider that Priceline wrote off $67 million in 2000, partly from its goofy venture into groceries and gasoline, while Amazon incinerated $233 million by "investing" in dotbombs like Webvan and Ashford.com Last year, jds Uniphase booked the biggest loss ever recorded--$56 billion--as it wrote off the costs of its overpriced acquisitions...
...trackless peaks and chasms of Afghanistan? He's protected by caves and safe houses and ultraloyal bodyguards. He travels with a few aides he has known for life, in vehicles that change daily, perhaps with a decoy double nearby. You've got eyes in the sky scanning every rocky quadrant, and those satellites can see trucks and buildings and moving people--but they can't pick out his face. Technology might get you close, but not close enough: You need another man--someone in his inner circle or in the Taliban, or overheard chattering unwisely--to give...