Word: askew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, you know something is askew when conservatives start pining for the days when the liberal Ivy League elite ruled. Yet, shocking as it may seem, such a sentiment can be found in the October 5 issue of The Weekly Standard--a conservative magazine edited by Dan Quayle's onetime chief-of-staff William Kristol and bankrolled by Newt Gingrich's publisher media tycoon Rupert Murdoch...
...decades, as countless teams struggled within the architectural marvel, nobody cared that one aspect--the football field--was a tad askew...
...question is how badly these forecasts may be knocked askew by the ongoing Asian economic tempest. Henry Kaufman, one of Wall Street's most respected financial analysts, wryly notes that economists most often "forecast usual events because we all have experience" with them. But the Asian breakdown is far outside that experience. "We've gone over 60 years since we've had this kind of a massive disruption...
...road that wound through 100-ft. redwoods and past a splashing stream. Then the winter rains started. Toward the end of January, the couple's driveway had started to heave. A week later, the house began to torque and twist so that windows cracked and doors hung askew. "You'd better get out," city inspectors advised. Within two hours, the Ragsdales and two dozen friends started filing in and out of the house like ants, loading a truck with the couple's possessions. A short time later, the Ragsdales were forced to demolish their house so that it would...
...stage of leukemia and the fact that his donor was not a complete match, having one different antigen, lowered the odds of Kuo's recovery. After Kuo's transplant operation on Dec. 10, Kuo had a brush with death. Near Christmas, his liver and kidney functions went almost fatally askew...