Word: blip
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With the gouge issue off the radar for now, NASA turned its attention to the next blip on the screen: Hurricane Dean, now pounding the islands of the Caribbean and drag-racing Endeavour toward the Gulf - right under the shuttle's landing-day flight path...
...found that the Daily Show and other comedy news shows were hardly even a blip,” Patterson said. “They don’t spring out as an important source of daily news...
...over.According to speculations, the majority will be hearing bad news. This weekend’s draft boasts such prospects as Georgia Tech’s Calvin Johnson, LSU’s JaMarcus Russell, and Notre Dame’s Brady Quinn. The Ivy League is not even a blip on anyone’s radar.Well, unless you actually go here. In that case, according to ESPN you really have four guys to zero in on, including Dawson and Brown linebacker Zak Deossie—the Bears’ first player ever to be invited to the combine. Deossie is projected...
...That context is not as kind to Imus. He comes out of the shock jock tradition, but all shock jocks are not created equal. If Opie & Anthony or Mancow had made the "nappy-headed" comment, it wouldn't have been a blip because future Presidents do not do cable-news interviews with Opie & Anthony and Mancow...
...numbers are a one-year blip in a long-term trend, and they are hardly "dramatic." "For youth aged 14-19 the suicide rate increased by 11%, from 7.3 per 100,000 to 8.2 per 100,000." That's less than one extra death in 100,000. And please note that 8.2 per 100,000 is still lower than the rate...