Word: bulletining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lithuanian embassy in Brussels, there's a terse but plaintive note on the bulletin board: seeking place to eat real Lithuanian meal. Secretary Agnès Geniusaite explains: "We're all looking for places to eat our traditional food." There are, alas, no Lithuanian restaurants in Brussels. So every few weeks Geniusaite and colleagues gather at somebody's house for dishes like balandeliai (stuffed cabbage) and saltibarsciai (a kind of borscht). The Lithuanians are not alone in their plight. In the past year, some 4,000 people from the 10 countries scheduled to join the E.U. in 2004 have moved...
Another unwelcome blast from the past is the market's fascination with profitless wonders. Trading volume on the OTC Bulletin Board--purgatory for flimsy companies that no longer meet the major exchanges' listing requirements--exceeds the volume on the New York Stock Exchange. The last time that happened...
...concluded the Japanese had been out to humiliate China. Posters appeared on dormitory walls. "Protect our nation, throw out the attackers," read one. Rumors that the Japanese had worn pig's heads and had racist insults written on their costumes circulated quickly via mobile-phone text messages and Internet bulletin boards. More than a thousand angry students massed outside the foreign students' dormitory and sang the Chinese national anthem, before shouting for the "Japanese pigs" to come out and apologize. When no one appeared, protesters broke windows with bricks, burst into the dorm and beat up two Japanese students...
...first attack this year reportedly happened during the weekend of Oct. 19, when a number of students destroyed a series of pro-life posters pinned on the bulletin boards of first-year dormitories and undergraduate Houses...
...Alumni Bulletin of December 1951 states that Sannwald was drafted as a “common soldier.” But Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier, a World War II historian, suggests that a 34-year-old with five children would not have been drafted as a common soldier, but most likely as a pastor...