Word: curbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...across the South, and rebuilding can't start until the cleanup is done. In much of New Orleans, the leafy coverage of live oaks is gone. Lingering in the sky instead is a fine grit that tastes metallic to the tongue. Everyone's life story is out on the curb, soaked and stinky--furniture and clothing, dishes and rotting drywall, even formerly fabulous antiques. Dump trucks come periodically to remove the piles, taking some to a former city park, now a heap of rubbish several football fields long, towering above the head. The smell is sweet, horrific...
More generally, the study presented a two-level approach to reduce the risks of climate change. The first level, “direct mitigation,” includes, among other measures, increasing monitoring of extreme weather hazards and distributing bed nets to curb the spread of malaria, Firth said...
...most amazing things about “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (and “Seinfeld,” for that matter) has been the ability of Team Larry David to make numerous, seemingly unrelated (and insignificant) developments coalesce into a terrifically funny ending. Oh, that Davidian-Seinfeldian joy, when all the little details would rise into one enormous fugue of laughtrack-driven ecstasy as George collapsed to the floor in his undies or Kramer made a final exit. Not only were all of these developments funny on their own, but when they came together for a magnificent denouement...
...bears the thumbprint of an urban planner. Seidel, who holds a degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, proposes establishing wireless Internet throughout Cambridge and making the price of parking permits proportional to the size of vehicles that take up the city’s valuable curb space...
...great games to go to, but it shouldn’t be as a result of forcing students to leave another activity that they enjoy.” “I’m not really convinced that ending the tailgate early will [prevent or curb binge drinking],” Capp said, “I think they’re conflating fun with binge drinking.”But Lowell House Committee (HoCo) chair Neil K. Mehta ’06 said that in spite of disappointment over the ban on drinking games and limited tailgating...