Word: burning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard to see where McCain can turn for good news in these numbers. The secondary figures are not yet in for the G.O.P. candidates, but already Romney's campaign is predicting they will have a healthy "burn rate" - a measure of how much money raised actually gets saved for future campaign expenses. A Romney campaign source says that of the money they took in last quarter they expect to bank around the same amount McCain earned in total. McCain's office declined to say what it expects its burn rate to be, but its expenses have been considerable, with...
...cane knives. They said the structure did not belong to them, but I had to come across their land to get it back. I could have taken them on in court to get the house back. But the moment we won the case would be the moment they would burn it down...
...director Tucker was, by happenstance, the cameraman accompanying the raid on Yunis's house), that there is nothing approaching justice (or even simple sensitivity) in the way that the day-to-day business of war is conducted in Iraq; that the shame of this war's conduct will burn our memories for decades to come...
...Could you BE more stupid?” A poster called “Madcat” asks on the recently controversial admissions blog xoxohth.com. The bloggers certainly seem to be trying. This burn-book-style blog has received plenty of attention, with articles in The Washington Post and a segment on NPR. With all the hype, you’d think the blog was a cornucopia of juicy gossip about the future Sam McSenators who populate Harvard Law School. Reality disappoints. Scrolling through posts, the most viewed posts includes a YouTube video of an unidentified Harvard Law student with...
...could build a particularly dirty "uncapped" power plant, then sell hundreds of millions in carbon credits to reduce it to a normal rate of pollution. The result? The polluter gets very rich. The planet continues to cook. And the Gores of the world can feel virtuous as they burn up the local power grid...