Word: blanketted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then again, maybe not. The rich benefits that have made Europe a sweet place to work have clogged its economic arteries. Call it Eurosclerosis--the combination of a staggering tax burden and a blanket of regulations that smother new businesses and entrepreneurship. Symptoms: Europe's unemployment rate of 11% is twice as high as the U.S.'s, and its job-creation chart is a flat line. Over the past three years, the U.S. has created 8.4 million new jobs, Europe none. Significantly, many of those new American jobs pay higher than average wages, and as many as 60% are managerial...
...snowfall which began last night was expected to blanket the Boston area with four to eight inches of snow before the storm tapered off this morning. Late last night, winter storm advisories were upgraded to winter storm warnings...
...offers a stream of arbitrary criticisms of VideoPros, including blanket character judgments, video selection and even the relative merits of our store's lighting system versus another's. While we are open to ways in which we can improve, we are at a loss to explain what any of these things have to do with his original premise...
...would never know it from the blanket of snow which covers Ohiri Field, but the lacrosse season is upon us. The Harvard men's team opens up the 1996 campaign today against Holy Cross, wintry conditions permitting...
...while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just pulled from the sea." Like Audrey Hepburn, perhaps, Brown's art is meticulous and precise beneath its haunting surface...