Word: doneness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thing is for sure - customers want something to be done, and soon. "It's illogical to spend billions of dollars on the Olympics while at the same time not solve the air-traffic problems," says Martin Craigs, president of the trade association Aerospace Forum Asia. "What happens at the airports are the face of China to travelers." If Beijing wants to be a world-class aviation player, saving face should be its first priority...
...form of rising seas and superstorms, as well as geopolitical. Remaining addicted to fossil fuels mires the U.S. in the labyrinth of Middle East politics and keeps the country dependent upon oil-rich antagonists such as Iran and Russia. Conservatives who have jumped the fence on global warming have done so chiefly because of this issue. Many were convinced after a panel of retired generals and admirals delivered a report last year warning of the security implications of rising temperatures, including resource wars and refugees fleeing drought and famine. "I often find people remain skeptical of global warming," says James...
...investigation won't be done for months, but it is likely that some of those injuries happened during the evacuation - not the initial crash. Even in controlled drills, accidents are common. When the new, supersized Airbus A380 underwent mandatory evacuation tests in 2006, 33 of the 873 evacuating volunteers got hurt. One suffered a broken leg, and the remaining 32 received slide burns. And that was considered a success...
...call John McCain "Kid." Did the old-timers really go for the ultra-violent No Country and Blood enough to give those two films the most nominations? I know of some octogenarian members who'd let their grandchildren do the voting, under the theory that the job should be done by people who'd actually seen the movies. But this is, by and large, a very Generation Y, double-frappuccino list. The main exceptions are Atonement, an old-fashioned period romance with a modernist endgame, and the supporting acting nominations for Hal Holbrook, 82, and Ruby...
...search of a better life end up incurably homesick. Fan and her three sisters all regret their decisions to marry Taiwanese men. One of the sisters also got a divorce after her husband had an affair. Autumn Fan sighs, "If our family had more money, we wouldn't have done this. We always get together and talk about how much we miss home...