Word: bumpings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There hasn't been any way to bump up student shows. Community members with seniority have day and prime time shows," Newman says...
...dopamine genes known as D2 and D4 might also play a role in drug abuse, for similar reasons. Both these genes, it turns out, contain the blueprints for assembling what scientists call a receptor, a minuscule bump on the surface of cells to which biologically active molecules are attracted. And just as a finger lights up a room by merely flicking a switch, so dopamine triggers a sequence of chemical reactions each time it binds to one of its five known receptors. Genetic differences that reduce the sensitivity of these receptors or decrease their number could diminish the sensation...
Actually, there is a logical and economical reason behind last week's edition. The lemmings in the rest of the media (especially the producers of television newsmagazines) give the edition enormous hype. Time plays it up in preceding magazines. Along with this increase in exposure, Time gets a big bump in purchases, even though NOTHING HAS HAPPENED...
...stopping for a leisurely lunch, striking up conversations, and even (gasp!) studying there once in a while. What I have started to find is that Loker spoils me rotten: I get to see members of my first-year proctor group I had lost touch with over the years, to bump into a visiting student living off campus who actually went to my high school, and to see the woman I hosted one pre-frosh weekend enjoying her choice to come to Harvard. On top of all that, I like the food...
...many crashes are the product of terrorism anyway? I have been in airplanes where the overhead bins open with gay abandon at the slightest bump, where the reading lights flicker with a hypnotic frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control...