Word: eared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reinsdorf, understand, is the hardest of the hard-line owners warring with the players' union. He has the ear of acting commissioner Bud Selig, who recently presided over the defeat of the labor deal that would have brought peace and imposed a luxury tax to level the playing field between large- and small-market teams. Reinsdorf rails against the spiraling cost of players' salaries and then puts his money where his mouth was not. "Any owner who breaks the market like this with the industry in trouble, it makes you scratch your head," said Cleveland Indians general manager John Hart...
...these classes do not talk. They do. However, in these classes (as opposed to those which occupy the other category,) discussion is an accurate term to describe that which transpires, not a blatant misnomer. Rapid and remarkable articulation is helpful but not essential. Those who listen with a trained ear, an ear which knows how to filter out the garbage and maintain the pearls, are rewarded not only with success but also with knowledge...
...matter how vivid the danger lurking deep within its corridors, a game like Quake would be little more than a feast for the eye without equally rich 3-D grunts and groans. That's where Bose's top speakers come in handy: the amplifier and two ear-thrashing cubes will replace that grating, tin-can PC sound with a digital symphony. ($699; Bose...
...cocked head a seductive come-on--is a reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. John Kander and Fred Ebb's score is a model of its craft. No detachable love ballads here, just a stream of tuneful, witty numbers that make their point, engage the ear and evoke an era without sounding like mere pastiche...
...remember you from our Arkansas work," Schoen told him. "Our polling then showed you as a middle-of-the-road Democrat. Now you have to get back to the center." He wasn't saying anything the President didn't know. Since November, Morris had been whispering in Clinton's ear about "riding the wave" of the G.O.P. tsunami. Clinton started paddling that way with his middle-class Bill of Rights speech...