Word: bitting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Island Lessons A tour of Samso feels a bit like a greatest hits collection of Denmark's successful energy policies. The island features district heating plants fired by waste biomass such as straw. The plants provide heat to homes in lieu of more polluting oil-burning furnaces. When the sun is shining - which, admittedly, is not often - solar thermal panels provide hot water. Wind power is everywhere - on land, where towering turbines shade cows on a dairy farm, and offshore, where 10 turbines greet the incoming ferries like a row of sentinels. Many of the turbines are owned collectively...
...Richards put it, a poetry reading with a bit of potty mouth is destined to be “great fun.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...will help fill staff vacancies remaining empty as a result of the staff hiring freeze announced in November, Brainard said. In addition, HCL will stop manually sifting and processing individual issues of common periodicals when they arrive at the library. Though less vigilant processing poses a “bit of a risk,” Brainard said staff could be put to better use by focusing on the more unpredictable, uncommon serials. The cost reduction measures come after Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith’s December request for 10 to 15 percent reductions...
...article also incorrectly stated that Richards said poetry reading with a bit of potty mouth is destined to be “great fun.” In fact, Richards was referring to poetry reading in general and made no mention of foul language in reference to that remark...
...Friday night, local Republicans lavished Steele with praise. "He's smart, he's sophisticated, he has vision," says Dan Cronin, a state legislator and chair of the county's Republican Party. Tall and a bit brawny, Steele took the dais, dressed in a gray suit and a pink tie. "They told me this was Barack Country," he told the overwhelmingly white crowd of roughly 700 (there was a handful of blacks and South Asians), inciting a mixture of applause and boos. He acknowledged that in the last election cycle, "We got our clocks cleaned. We got, as my momma said...