Word: choppings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Despite his grief, Bharat Mani Jnawali understands why his elder brother's March 13 death faded from the headlines after a day. "This is a very common method," he says. "It happens to hundreds. They cut different parts of the body off and then only at the end, they chop your head. Shooting would be easier, of course, but this is more intense. It's for the fear." And it's working. When the corpse arrived in Kathmandu for cremation, Congress leaders came to pay their respects. To Jnawali, who had seen his brother's wounds, the sight...
Automakers have also learned that a convertible need not handle like a Porsche to turn a profit. Consider Toyota's Solara convertible, based on an aging Camry platform. Says analyst Michael Bruynesteyn of Prudential Securities: "It's basically a chop," meaning that Toyota grafted a soft top onto the Solara with minimal changes to the rest of the car. Toyota sold 7,600 units when it introduced the vehicle in 2000, charging about $5,000 more than for the comparable hardtop. The convertible shares a platform with seven other vehicles, so if interest in the ragtop wanes, the automaker...
...were capable of making such a meal myself, it would have taken me all day to shop, chop and cook. As it was, my toughest task was poking open the plastic pouches. In fact, my big complaint has little to do with the sites. After eating so well, I can't imagine going back to my real life of stand-up meals and leftovers. Now I long for filet mignon...
...strong, sloping shoulders; and he?d hit those tap steps hard, nailing them, pounding them into the floor so hard they almost left permanent depression marks in the wood. You saw the grinding work, as much as the fun, in Kelly?s favorite maneuvers. Some of them - like the chop step with straight, churning arms, or the bit in "Singin? in the Rain" where he briskly windmills his arms - could be adapted to a power-workout regimen. Kelly could be imitated, and was, widely. Astaire and his finesse were inimitable; they could only be appreciated...
...merely as displays of strength and skill--but what's different now is how desperately we need them to and how grateful we are when they succeed. While I don't feel entirely satisfied with the clever Solomonic compromise that settled the figure-skating issue (why not just chop the one gold medal in half?), I'm glad that the lofty figures behind the scenes finally acted. I'm tired of hung juries. I'm tired of not knowing whether Osama bin Laden is alive or dead. I'm tired of corporate balance sheets that don't balance...