Word: barreled
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...team got good memories and the pride of a winning season. The other had to settle for the bottom of the Ivy League barrel. Luckily for the Crimson, the lacrosse gods were on its side...
Audience participation in the form of singing and gesturing came with hits “Barrel of a Gun,” “Fa Fa,” and “Airport Song.” Other treats included some material from the album Guster put on hold for this tour, “Ramona” and what is currently called “New Song #2.” The inevitable cover came in the form of The Zombies’ “Time of the Season” on which Miller played bass...
...there is enough to evoke in poor Porter a supercharged sexuality. An unbelievable number of affairs later—not even your local final club could provide you with sex this casual—he eventually finds himself picking up women that aren’t picks of the barrel, including a man in drag and a psychotic cellist played by Natassja Kinski. Where he goes from here should be obvious to any fan of the romantic comedy genre; no prizes for guessing whether or not he will get back together with his supportive, though somewhat dumpy wife. Director Peter...
...blame OPEC - at least not completely. The oil-producer cartel hasn't stuck with its pledge to cut production by 1.5 million barrels a day in March, and analysts don't expect the 1 million-barrel reduction promised for April to be as steep as advertised either. Crude oil inventories in the U.S. are up nearly 5 percent from a year ago, to 313 million barrels - but gasoline inventories stand at 192.8 million barrels, a drop of 6.2 percent from this time last year and the lowest springtime level since...
...struggling dotcoms fit in this category—simply got seduced by the land grab rhetoric of 1998 and 1999. In the middle of Web hype fever, startups were going to take over the world in 18 months, and anyone who wasn’t burning cash by the barrel to get an early lead was dead meat. Consider Kozmo.com. Their idea—Web-based, immediate delivery of videos, food and certain household goods—certainly encountered strong demand, especially on college campuses like ours. But the company didn’t take steps to conserve cash...