Word: blip
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Justin Theel's car dealership, a sprawling campus on Interstate 94, the Dodges may be gone - troubles at Chrysler know no state boundaries - but sales this year are still off by only about 20 vehicles. That's a blip that dealers elsewhere would kill for. "For the most part, we're a boring story," says Theel. "But sometimes that's good...
...Today, Tiananmen seems forgotten in mainland China, or else it is seen as a blip on the march to prosperity. In Macau, the annual remembrances are almost invisible events (only 70 people attended last year's gathering, which jointly commemorated Sichuan earthquake victims). Only in Hong Kong are the killings still openly observed and debated by large numbers - a tribute to its unique status as China's freest society, and a reminder of the widely held view that China can truly move forward only when the 1989 protesters have been rehabilitated. "We have been China's conscience," said journalist Ching...
Mountain High, Emperor Far Away No matter how well intentioned, China's stimulus package may provide little more than a short-lived growth blip if officials are unable to control the perennial bugbear of Chinese economic development: pervasive corruption in local and provincial governments, which make their own way far from the brilliant technocrats in Beijing. (Read "The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader...
...women who loved it as passionately as she did. She dedicated herself to all aspects of it--playing, organizing tournaments, establishing rules and more. While my fellow players and I do not have it as hard as Betty did in an era when women's sports were barely a blip on the radar, we have derived our own mission from the work of Betty and the other incredible first women of golf. Even with all the progress we have made since the LPGA's inception in 1950, there are always more goals, more opportunities and more ways of giving back...
California's fault zones can match the rest of the world's in terms of earthquake magnitude, but when it comes to human casualties, they barely register a blip. "They're practically nothing," says Richard Allen, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the reason can be attributed to the U.S.'s superior earthquake preparation - California has strict building codes that are designed to prevent structures from collapse, and events like the Nov. 13 ShakeOut teach individuals what to do in an emergency. For the most part, though, the low death...