Word: dulling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small (7 ft. 7 in. by 5 ft. 10 in.) cell. He works out with weights, keeping his 155 lbs. (on a 5-ft 9-in. frame) in shape. He complains about his confinement: "Can't take two steps in this cage. It's inhuman. And that dull-ass color blue on the walls in no way brightens my life." He has devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family? I'm a victim of a crooked criminal system...
Executives of the two papers display little of the courteous approval that journalists typically accord competitors. News Editor William Giles, 55, calls the featurish Free Press "superficial, flighty and frilly." Lawrence says that Giles' paper, which earnestly stresses hard news, is "dull, bland and less complete than the Free Press." Giles and Lawrence live just a block away from each other in suburban Grosse Pointe Park, but as Lawrence dryly observes, "We have certainly not had the opportunity to become close friends...
...said to have ascended the throne of St. Peter around A.D. 855 and who was later stoned to death. Also joining the party are Isabella Bird (Deborah Findlay), an intrepid 19th century Scottish traveler; Lady Nijo (Lindsay Duncan), a 13th century Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun; Dull Gret (Carole Hayman), who led an avenging legion of women into the precincts of hell in Brueghel's painting Dulle Griet; and finally, Patient Griselda (Lesley Manville), made famous in Boccaccio and Chaucer as the model of a loyal, submissive wife...
...vast powers of the personal computer can be vastly multiplied by plugging it into an information network, they can be extended in all directions by attaching the mechanical brain to sensors, mechanical arms and other robotic devices. Robots are already at work in a large variety of dull, dirty or dangerous jobs: painting automobiles on assembly lines and transporting containers of plutonium without being harmed by radiation. Because a computerized robot is so easy to reprogram, some experts foresee drastic changes in the way manufacturing work is done: toward customization, away from assembly-line standards. When the citizen of tomorrow...
...more middle-class Americans into higher tax brackets, there has been a growing curiosity about these complex securities. Bond Salesman James Lebenthal has spent ten years trying to raise the public consciousness about municipal bonds, and has gone about the task in an unorthodox way. Instead of relying on dull technical advertisements in financial publications, Lebenthal appears in his own television commercials, declaring that "bonds are my babies." Such tactics have helped transform his small New York City firm, Lebenthal & Co., into one of the U.S.'s largest municipal bond dealers that sell only to individuals...