Word: wrongly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When people say it's undergraduate humor I think they're wrong," Jones says of the Python style. "It's postgraduate humor." (Like MP&HG, which grew out of Jones' study of Chaucer.) Yet the adolescence factor can't be dismissed. Squint a little, and you could see the Pythons as British versions of the American college jocks who reached their apex of glory and achievement as young men, then went into real estate, coasting on their lingering allure. It's true, anyway, if we see the TV show and Holy Grail as an extension of the glamorous days Jones...
...projections have needed thorough overhauls. Last year, for example, the industry's catastrophe models assumed that three Atlantic superstorms wouldn't occur in one year. But, in August, it wasn't just a run-of-the-mill third superstorm (if such a thing were possible) that proved the models wrong - it was Hurricane Katrina. The damage caused by Katrina was off the charts: 275,000 houses were destroyed, 10 times the number flattened by 1992's Hurricane Andrew, then the worst storm to hit the U.S. The unexpected devastation wrought by Katrina (and the financial losses incurred by the insurance...
...reaching charges ever brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. prosecutors charged James Giffen, an American businessman who was once a key Nazarbayev adviser, with funneling $78 million in bribes from oil companies to Kazakhstan's top leaders. Kazakhstan has flatly denied that its officials have done anything wrong, and Giffen has denied the charges against him. His case is scheduled to go to trial in January. The temptations of oil money make political reform all the more imperative. There are some promising signs. The 2005 U.N. Development Program Fact Sheet praised Kazakhstan as "thus far the only country...
...division. For the regatta overall, BU and BC finished in second and third places, respectively. “It’s a very tricky place to sail, with lots of wind shifts and velocity differences,” Kovacs said. “We were on the wrong side a few more times than we would have liked on Saturday, but we figured that lake out on Sunday.” But the Hood Trophy wasn’t the only thing the Crimson dominated over the weekend. The one-day Harvard Invitational on Sunday saw the Crimson complete...
...Wrong...