Word: write
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reading Period: 1. Two weeks to read a semester's worth of text and write three 30-page papers. 2. When the rest of campus goes skiing...
...What's the trick to getting your family to let you write about them...
...antisocial behavior (e.g., incest) into jolly rhyme schemes ("I'd rather marry a duck-billed pledipus/ Than end up like old Oedipus/ Rex"). For a few years, on albums and in concerts, Lehrer was a comedy hero to the intelligentsia and other lonely people. He surfaced briefly to write songs for the TV shows That Was the Week That Was (no one, not even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids hummed Silent E for minutes on end), then retreated to his blackboard. So the Rhino compilation of his collected works--all 45 songs...
...analogous issue is at stake in the government's case against Microsoft. Microsoft argues that it has furthered innovation by providing a platform upon which many application developers have been able to write code. No doubt it has--generally. But the government attacked cases where Microsoft used its power over the platform to stifle technologies that threatened Microsoft's monopoly. The charge was that Microsoft's strategic behavior undermined innovation that was inconsistent with Microsoft's business...
...blank out--though one might be suspicious of instances involving chores requested by parents or teachers. Unless your forgetfulness is accompanied by deeper failures in reasoning and logic, it's nothing to fret about. After all, if being absentminded were a sign of mental disarray, you'd have to write off Einstein, who bungled simple arithmetic even while working on relativity...