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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...something men and women cruising on sleek black motorbikes, all of them Harley-Davidson's Sportster Iron 883s. It's part of a marketing campaign to generate buzz around the newest Sportster. "That's hot!" one woman declares on Harley-Davidson's Facebook page, where other minidocumentaries promoting the bike are posted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harley-Davidson Tries to Rejuvenate Its Business | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...been through a few cycles. It was founded in Milwaukee in 1903, and within a decade built itself into a global business. It survived the Great Depression by selling to police departments. In 1957, it introduced the Sportster, a sleeker, less expensive alternative to the company's popular touring bikes and a response to a wave of British imports. The Sportster's relatively small size made it appealing to women. But by the 1970s, motorcycling had become a marginalized sport. Its renaissance came in the late 1980s, driven largely by baby boomers' new affluence. From 1992 to 2007, new-bike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harley-Davidson Tries to Rejuvenate Its Business | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...future? (With online piracy rampant, will anyone get paid at all?) How do you replace TV-commercial revenue? And how do you measure a hit when more and more of the audience is watching on computers, on DVD players, via video-game consoles or on the screen of the bike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TV Critic in the Post-TV World | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...lick them, but if you just bite the ChapStick, it tastes like poison. 16. On two separate occasions, I have returned to my dorm room drunk, with some form of cheese in my purse. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country.) 17. When I was little, I pretended my bike was a horse named Satan. 18. My wife calls me Panda. When a friend of ours found out and started calling me Ling Ling, I got pissed. 19. I can't take guys who wear sports jerseys seriously. 20. Danny DeVito broke my pinky toe. 21. One time, Sean came over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 More Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

Forced to lower its dues because of the financial crisis, the Porcellian Club will have to lease the Bike Room to a local business. The owners of a mediocre burrito joint and a purveyor of useless but overpriced knickknacks will come to blows over the space, and two WASPs will sustain minor injuries as they flee the kerfuffle. The College will finally remark on the lack of social space on campus...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, Emmeline D. Francis, Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Emma M. Lind, Marcel E. Moran, Alix M. Olian, Ramya Parthasarathy, Jessica A. Sequeira, and James M. Wilsterman | Title: Predictions | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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