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...effect. When you pull it out, the water returns to its original state. While we occupy those countries, we suffer casualties and financial disaster. Once we leave, everything will return to the way it was before: tribal wars, traditions and culture. We will have accomplished nothing. You cannot change thousand-year-old cultures into democratic states in a few years. It takes decades, even centuries for cultures to evolve into advanced political systems. Frosty Wooldridge, GOLDEN, COLO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teddy's Legacy | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...support the decriminalization of marijuana? -Craig Thomas, Longview, Texas Why support the criminalization of marijuana is the better question. First, I defend it because a free society allows people to make free choices, even dumb choices. And the problems we have with the war on drugs are a thousand times worse than the problems we have with drug overusage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ron Paul | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

Little reason, that is, other than the cost. Sony says it envisions a 3-D TV in every U.S. home by the end of 2010. That's a pipe dream, especially with early models expected to cost as much as several thousand dollars, though no price has been released yet. But with more and more content producers coming on board and with positive early reviews, who knows? This may just be the time 3-D finally finds some staying power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Anyone Watch 3-D TV? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...it’s an allegory for waiting to have sex until after marriage. Charming. Mormonly charming. If you’ve watched or read the first installment, this intention is immediately evident. Kristen Stewart stumbles around onscreen licking her lips in Pavlovian fashion while Robert Pattinson winces a thousand times and whispers that Stewart smells so good—but he just can’t have sex with her... I mean, bite her... I mean, get busy with her... I mean, suck her blood and send her into the immortal undead state of vampires (i.e. people who don?...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Hot Topic: Vamps Don’t Really Suck, Per Se | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...alternating pop fare with offbeat comedies and art-house vehicles. He agreed to do The Sixth Sense only on the condition that Disney would bankroll a movie he really wanted to make, Alan Rudolph's version of Breakfast of Champions. One movie made $294 million, the other $178 thousand. You can guess which film Willis preferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surrogates: The Zen Machismo of Bruce Willis | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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