Word: flaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amuck is the proliferation of earmarks--spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. "Beating up on lobbyists is easy to do, but we have to put our own house in order, and at the top of that list is earmark reform," says Republican Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona. The most famous recent earmark was last fall's so-called Bridge to Nowhere--a provision that Representatives from Alaska inserted into a bill to spend close to $223 million to make it easier to reach a virtually uninhabited area of the state. In the end, the money...
...Paris during her tenure at Le Cordon Bleu. But specialty sugars have added a whole new dimension to her baking. There are little gems, such as her dainty financier cake made with pineapple muscovado jam; brioche that sparkles with demerara sugar; and kouing-aman, a buttery, caramelized cinnamon-flake pastry...
...financial free-for-all. The President was careful not to get specific about what the "generosity of a united country" might cost, but economists estimate that Katrina's final price tag could easily top $200 billion. While frugal Republicans like Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Arizona Representative Jeff Flake (one of 11 members of the House to vote against the President's relief bill) instinctively called for budget cuts to offset the cost of the recovery effort, few cuts seem politically realistic. And much to the dismay of many of his colleagues, House majority leader Tom DeLay proclaimed that...
...change the way humans interface with computers and make today's methods seem as outmoded as telex machines and brick-size mobile phones. "Search will ultimately be as good as having 1,000 human experts who know your tastes scanning billions of documents within a split second," says Gary Flake, one of just seven Distinguished Engineers at Microsoft, who are paid to think big thoughts. "It will model the human brain...
...lights in Pyongyang. More important, nobody knows if Kim has decided to come back to the table to negotiate away his nukes, or to extract more concessions and sidestep the risk of sanctions if he hangs on to them. "That's the $20,000 question," says Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Washington, D.C.-based Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs...