Word: drags
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long agony at Continental and the worsening of the Latin American debt crisis have become a drag on the whole banking industry. During the past three months, stock prices of major New York City banks have fallen more than 13%. Said James Wooden, the bank-industry analyst for Merrill Lynch: "Continental's problems are probably unique and not transferable to other banks. On the other hand, they represent a very serious do mestic banking problem that must be dealt with. The sooner those problems are solved, the better...
...figure clad in a hiked-up nun's habit, black fishnet stockings, and a tightly drawn wimple that sometimes fails to hold in an unruly shock of red hair. These have become the transvestite trademarks of Sister Boom Boom, member of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, and the drag creation of a 29-year-old astrologer named Jack Fertig. Part put-on artist and part self-promoter, Boom Boom sparks reactions that run the gamut from righteous outrage to raucous approbation. Outside San Francisco, Fertig's bizarre alter ego has come to symbolize a climate of tolerance gone...
...Sargent Shriver, one poll showed confidence in McGovern plummeting by 25%. In 1952 Richard Nixon's alleged association with a political slush fund became an embarrassment for Dwight Eisenhower, though not a fatal one. More recently, Senator Robert Dole was judged by some pollsters to be a drag on Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign because he alienated voters with barbed rhetoric...
Still, the drag in the Campaign's efforts has had a noticeable effect on the Faculty's finances. This is in part due to the fact that the actual cash earned in the fund drive has been slower coming in than expected. The Faculty, which had expected to be able to draw on the endowment of $82 million worth of gifts, could only draw on $75 million when it came time to plan next year's budget. The shortfall put a damper on the happy faces around University Hall this spring because of the new tuition figure for next year...
...Gabriel Rossetti-and followed, eventually, by a small trail of satellite painters. And it was self-consciously "revolutionary": the year was 1848, and a secret society of dangerous young subversives had become one of the special phantoms of the English mind. The P.R.B. wanted to reform English art, to drag it from the swamp of maudlin genre and low-grade history painting. They believed, with the ardent simplicity of young minds, that this decay had set in three centuries before, with Raphael. Hence they wanted to go back before Raphael, appealing to a moment in history-the Middle Ages...