Word: blasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Census data reveal an uptick in stay-at-home moms who hold graduate or professional degrees--the very women who seemed destined to blast through the glass ceiling. Now 22% of them are home with their kids. A study by Catalyst found that 1 in 3 women with M.B.A.s are not working full-time (it's 1 in 20 for their male peers). Economist and author Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who teaches at Columbia University, says she sees a brain drain throughout the top 10% of the female labor force (those earning more than $55,000). "What we have discovered...
...suicide bomb a few doors from where he had spent six weeks, sleeping mostly outdoors on the roof to escape the suffocating heat. "There were body parts on our roof," Mulhern says he heard from colleagues. Several streets in Mansour, where scores of Westerners live, are cordoned off by blast barriers and patrolled by private security guards wielding AK-47s. "Companies are spending a ridiculous amount on security," says Oliver Westmacott, who is in a position to benefit. The British entrepreneur, 28, started a training and risk-analysis security business in Iraq that is proving to be "hugely lucrative...
...fast friends and still are today. Femenella has visited the Smith cabin in Groton, Vt., about eight times. And last summer, Smith went to New Jersey for the wedding of Femenella’s sister. “That,” Smith said, “was a blast...
...twenty years in hotels and restaurants before coming to Harvard, is currently the only certified research chef employed by an American university. A veteran of classes on the science of food preparation, Allen shows that he took good notes with CSG’s commitment to “blast chilling.” Contrary to gut reaction, “blast chilling” does not involve dynamite or liquid nitrogen—the process entails quickly freezing a prepared dish in cold-water tanks to ensure freshness and inhibit bacteria growth...
DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who served as President of Chechnya from 1996 to '97; after a bomb exploded his car as he was driving with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist, whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda, for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege...