Word: beared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shumsky--who has frequently aroused Driskell's ire this semester, most notably when he bashed the council's proposed Spirit Week--strolled down the aisle to receive his award and wrapped Driskell in a bear...
Because of its implicit, fatally attractive message--Oh, just give me a glance, I bear friendly tidings from a loving admirer!--headline writers immediately (and irresistibly) nicknamed it the Love Bug. But there was nothing lovable about it. Before it spent itself--in its first incarnation, it was truly a 24-hour virus--it would affect tens of millions of computers, eventually ring up a toll as high as $10 billion in lost work hours and reopen troubling questions about the safety and security of our vital electronic lifelines. By almost any measure, it was the most damaging virus ever...
...profit, and its finances are sufficiently transparent that any rational person can see that a living wage will not cause intolerable financial strain. And, as was pointed out at Saturday's rally, it may be that Harvard can pay less than a living wage because the market will bear it. But that doesn't make it the right thing to do. Every student at this University should make it clear to the administration that while our custodians, cooks, and security guards may work for $6.50 an hour, we--the people who interact on a daily basis with these fine people...
...American black bear, which normally gives birth to two or three cubs at a time, may walk away from one born alone, calculating that it's better to wait for a multiple birth next year than exhaust herself with a singleton now. Mice will examine offspring after they're born and eat undersize young, improving the overall fitness of the litter and giving themselves a valuable dose of protein in the process...
...good ones like Ben-Hur and Spartacus, but even the bad ones are guilty pleasures." Scott recalls seeing these epics in his youth. "I loved the costume drama of it all and remembered that world vividly," he says. "But I also knew you can't bring that to bear today. You've got to reinvent...