Search Details

Word: flea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...everybody out there. (Imagine how receptive patrons of a singles chat room would be to a poisoned "love letter.") Nor would you have been protected if your computer was part of a so-called local area network, or lan. The Love Bug would leap that barrier like some hyperactive flea. And there's more. If you were surfing with Internet Explorer, it would reset your home page to a website in the Philippines, from which it would download a second virus--this one designed to round up all those treasured passwords on your hard drive and ship them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack Of The Love Bug | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...changing the world need not be so dramatic as these examples make it sound. A good production of Me and My Girl could, in its way, have as much of an effect on society as the most openly activist plays like Waiting for Lefty or Not One Flea Spare. It is the nature of theater and not the content of the play itself that is important. Theater of any type teaches us-sometimes it teaches us how to watch and learn from and understand people, sometimes how to interpret their actions and see past their language, sometimes how to love...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Death in the Drawing Room | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...have the strictest licensing in the nation," Calixto said. "We need to control manufacturers, keep stuff out of flea markets...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Will Require HSA to Pay Royalties | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...been destroyed during the Gulf War and the previous eight-year war with Iran. As a result of the economic collapse, Iraqi civil servants now earn about $2.50 per month. Engineers have abandoned their professions to drive taxis, and academics sell their books for spare cash in street flea markets. Meanwhile, Iraqi hospitals scramble to maintain a supply of basic goods such as sutures, transfusions and disinfectant...

Author: By Lama N. Jarudi, | Title: Seeking the True Face of Iraq | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...perceived as an overcautious, scandal-tainted back-room dealer with no discernible ideology, little international experience and zero tact. In recent months, he has managed to insult Americans, Okinawans, Osakans, AIDS sufferers and teachers. As for political courage, even friends say he has the heart of a flea. All of which makes Mori, 62, an ideal Prime Minister--at least in the eyes of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which last week chose him to replace the incapacitated Keizo Obuchi at the helm of Japan's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: When Mori May Be Less | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Previous | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | Next