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...still sizing bras according to the first few letters of the alphabet? And I'm not discounting the seminal work of the Swiss anthropologist Rudolf Martin, who classified breasts into four types: flat, hemispheric, conical and goat-udder-shaped. It's just that, inexplicably, his nomenclature system failed to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett, Adjust My Bra | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...just 1 in 150, and closer to 1 in 500 for full-timers. But farm lobbyists say that simply highlights the continuing need for a safety net--and if the net happens to catch Scottie Pippen, Chevron, Ted Turner and 1,324 recipients in bucolic New York City, that's a small price to pay. "The system isn't perfect, but politics is the art of the possible, and the system works," says agribusiness lobbyist Charlie Stenholm, a cotton farmer and former Texas Congressman who was once the committee's top Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...have our first big-game catch of the 2007 housing slump and credit crunch. On Oct. 30, Stan O'Neal resigned his post as CEO of Merrill Lynch after reporting that his firm would suffer a $7.9 billion hit to the value of its assets because of bad bets on mortgage-related securities. O'Neal personally took blame for Merrill's forceful push into complex instruments designed to distribute the risk of a surging subprime-mortgage market--the ones now imploding as home prices flatline and defaults spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Market Casualties | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Halloween festivities involved a whole lot more than knucking and bucking, as it kicked off mid-week with one Lampenior doubling as a vigilante in his first ever citizen’s arrest, complete with GPS tracking and car trailing. Apparently all you need to catch criminals is a quick wit and nothing else to do...More hell on wheels is being brought by Cabot’s most bad-ass senior, who has been using his mother’s fiery red motorized scooter to get to his LSAT classes. He’d offer you a ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chatter | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...Saturday, most Harvard sports fans were probably just rolling out of bed, gearing up to make their way across the river to catch another day of Crimson athletics...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: River Run Full of Charm | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

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