Word: stringing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...huge stock-market losses on Thursday - a 7.3% drop in the Dow Industrials, a 7.6% decline in the S&P 500 - were just the latest in a string of traumas for investors already afraid to open brokerage statements or turn on cable TV for fear of what the news might bring. It was the seventh straight day of declines for the Dow, driving the group of blue-chip stocks below 8,600, a level not broached in five years. Since the market's high - ironically enough, exactly a year ago - the Dow has shed nearly...
...drone of helicopters and the careerist caution of legislators.But still I wonder. Since that debate, Palin has gone on the attack. For example, though Obama calls America “the greatest country in the world” so often you wonder if there’s a string coming out of his back, Palin told donors in Colorado: “Our opponent…is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” Beyond Palin?...
...third on the Crimson’s offense in points. “Today we did pretty well,” Nyamekye said. “When we really clicked, we were difficult to deal with.” The game-winning goal, however, came after a long string of missed Harvard scoring opportunities—a cross by junior Adam Rousmaniere to co-captain Michael Fucito just barely missed the net in the first five minutes of play. Later in the first half, the Crimson came up short again on a corner kick that found its way to junior...
...City, drunk people throwing things, yelling at us, wanting us out of their places where they like to be,” Dennings said.Dennings’s role in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” also represents a continuation of a string of parts in comedic movies that focus on high school students, such as “Charlie Bartlett” and “Raise Your Voice.” The repetition of such similar roles for both actors begs the question of whether either would consider different kinds...
Amidst a shower of paper airplanes, a man dressed in a navy lamé suit with a matching top hat honored a group of distinguished scientists for their research relating to the fertility cycle of lap dancers, the moral consideration of plants, and the spontaneous knotting of string. Last night in Sanders Theatre, the unusual met with the academic at the “Eighteenth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.” The ceremony—hosted by the scientific humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”—bestowed awards...