Word: earlier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some of the major funnymen of his generation. Peter Cook, of the Beyond the Fringe comedy quartet, called him "the bubonic plagiarist" for performing a similar impression of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan similar to Cook's at Cambridge. Many of the Monty Python troupe had worked for Frost on earlier shows, and in the sketch "Timmy Williams Coffee Time" Eric Idle played Frost as a gladhander preening for TV crews while ignoring the plaints of a recently widowed friend. Pythonite John Cleese, on the radio show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again mocked Frost's standard introduction...
When President-elect Barack Obama met with America's governors earlier this week, he got an earful about the recession-induced budget crisis they face. On Thursday those words of woe were backed up by a fresh report on the rapidly deteriorating condition of state finances. Revenues are dropping so fast that state budget cutters can't keep up, according to a report released by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). States that collectively cut $40 billion in spending to balance their budgets over the summer are now facing an additional $32 billion shortfall as tax receipts come...
...there was some “grumbling.” “I know some people who have exam conflicts now,” said Ivana Djak ‘11. “I think it would have made more sense to move the exam to an earlier time so we could have gotten out in time for the inauguration.” This change in exam date came as part of a larger movement on campus by students who want to be able to take make-up exams for those exams that conflict with the inauguration. Over...
...Earlier this month, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith touted Harvard’s “world-class research” as a fundamental aspect of what the University is doing to “make a long and lasting contribution to this issue [of climate change] from an intellectual point of view...
Melton, a widely respected researcher known for his full-throated advocacy of embryonic stem cell research, published a study earlier this year showing that an adult cell can be transformed into a different type of cell without first returning to an embryonic state...