Word: danger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tracy to meet his mom, Motormouth Maybelle (Mary Bond Davis), who hosts the once-a-month Negro Day on Corky's show and runs a record store on the dark side of town. The two nice white chicks love the cluttered store's music, its warmth and perceived danger. (Tracy: "This is so Afro-tastic!") In two shakes, Link shows up, and Edna and Wilbur. The place is crawling with Caucasians! A black girl mutters, "If we get any more white people in here, it'll be a suburb...
...product was a refinancing package for a natural-gas exploration project off the southern coast of Trinidad. Lacking the postcard beaches that draw tourists to neighboring islands, Trinidad depends mostly on oil and industry. The Trintomar venture stumbled over a series of drilling mishaps and in 1992 was in danger of defaulting on a loan to Nissho Iwai, a Japanese company that had financed the project. Three big international lenders submitted proposals to refinance the $61.5 million balance owed to Nissho Iwai. The plans were similar, but with its long history in Trinidad, Citibank emerged as the front runner...
...teenage life that Leela Corman depicts in "Subway Series" has less in common with the world of Archie and Veronica and more in common with the movie "Kids." Adults would be appalled at the amount of sex, drugs and danger these characters indulge in. But teenagers would recognize it as totally accurate...
...take care of yourself?" It's the key question of the book. As a girl growing up in the city Tina must suffer the insecurities of her age while maintaining an impossible cool. She must learn to be vulnerable in a world of particular, tangible danger. Corman draws this world of overly-mature kids in black and white, with simple, swooshy lines. Arms and legs don't bend so much as curve around. Shading has been minimized in favor of flat gray tones that emphasize blocky shapes on the page. Curiously, until the end little that could be identified...
...produce a new organism containing genetic material from both parent strains—can only occur with whole grains. Crushing the kernel of a grain, known as milling, prevents it from reproducing and thus transmitting its genetic material to a daughter organism. Milling GM crops thus eliminates the danger of cross-fertilization and strain contamination by making it impossible for the crops to transmit their altered genes by reproduction...