Word: regularness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1990s: the infatuation with the Internet and the proliferation of cable-TV channels. An increasingly wired country is also becoming an increasingly sedentary one, with Web-surfing kids leading the way. The answer, as always, is to shut down the computer, turn off the TV and try regular exercise and eating smart. The lecture may be the same as it's always been, but the stakes are becoming higher than ever...
...Firestone says it wasn't aware of a noticeable rise in claims for tires coming out of its Decatur plant until Ford did a sophisticated computer analysis in late July. However, according to testimony given by one of its former employees late last year, the company did its own regular quarterly analysis of adjustment data, plant by plant, every few months. And though NHTSA began its investigation in May, it took Firestone almost three months to gather the data necessary for it and Ford to pinpoint the problem. In the future, Ford says, contracts will stipulate it has complete access...
...That was a way on my part to focus attention on the main character. I found early on that, when trying to tell slightly more complicated stories, if I took the regular old approach of simply showing a room full of people with everybody's face, for some reason the experience of the story got kind of confused. You were identifying with all these different viewpoints in the room. It seems like some of the best known cartoon characters end up being these peculiar, almost sexless, baby-like men - bald, pink men, like Charlie Brown, and Tintin and Skeezix...
Worse still for the Concorde is the damage to its prestige that the crash and the grounding have caused. People paid thousands of dollars more than for regular airliners to fly the Concorde, not only for its speed but also for bragging rights. "The Concorde meant getting pampered," says Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va. "Uncertainty about the plane eliminates part of the cachet that was crucial to the Concorde's success...
...know something weird is going on in the afterlife when the dead get their own talk show. But there they are, twice a day, on Sci-Fi's new Crossing Over with John Edward, using the host, a regular-Joe medium, to greet, reminisce with and bust the chops of loved ones in the studio audience. Nor do the dead walk only on basic cable. On series as disparate as Providence, Ally McBeal, Soul Food and The X-Files, apparitions of departed loved ones offer advice and solace. On the WB's Dead Last, scheduled for next year, a rock...