Word: dials
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...publication of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right through the aftermath of the 2004 election. In its concentration on the Air America stint, the film inevitably covers much the same material as last year?s Left of the Dial. But it?s a frank-seeming portrait of a man who can always attract a crowd of autograph seekers, even at the Republican National Convention of 2004. (Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span...
...online travel planners cling to the big three--Expedia, Travelocity and Priceline--but the sharpest new way to search for bargain flights is on Kayak.com The site covers fares on some 300 airlines in any given week and saves time by letting you adjust search parameters, using a sliding dial, without having to start from scratch. It's also handy for getting hotel and car-rental deals...
...story is the same for mp3 files: once a mechanism for compressing music to a size easily distributable over dial-up modems had been standardized (mp3 was publicly released in 1994), dozens of innovators jumped in. They wrote mp3 playing software, built Internet-based distribution tools, and started to design CD players which supported the files. Six years later, the iPod was born...
...president of Environmental Defense. Krupp and others believe that we should probably accept that it's too late to prevent CO2 concentrations from climbing to 450 p.p.m. (or 70 p.p.m. higher than where they are now). From there, however, we should be able to stabilize them and start to dial them back down...
...only goal of the night, and senior goaltender Ali Boe made 24 saves to pick up her school-record 17th career shutout, giving the Crimson the first game of the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals. “We talked about turning on the switch, not ramping up the dial,” Harvard coach Katie Stone said. “The first twenty minutes of the game, we really did that.” The Crimson’s penalty kill was a large part of its success, holding Clarkson scoreless—and allowing only three shots?...