Word: flooded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retreating KMT 55 years ago. For decades they supported the KMT, then Taiwan's only party, which co-opted local ?lites and controlled loans to farmers to win loyalty. Now that's changing. Locals worry that the KMT's desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce and lower incomes and, more fundamentally, that the KMT will eventually reunify with a country they consider alien. The KMT's Yunlin chief, Huang Shang-wen, knows how his party can regain votes: "For us to win elections, we need to lean toward independence." But that...
...Prince scrawled the word slave on his face, changed his name to a symbol and announced that he was retiring from recorded music. The problem was that he had a backlog of 450 songs he felt the world wanted to hear, and Warner Bros. simply refused to flood the market with that much product. Commercial suicide, the company said. In one of his last public acts before locking himself away in Paisley Park, his hermitage just west of Minneapolis, Minn., Prince stood before an awards-show audience and prophesied in his little whisper, "Perhaps one day, all the powers that...
...weeks now, John Kerry?s heard critics tell him he needs to lay out his vision for the country before the flood of Bush-Cheney TV ads convince voters that the Senator?s real name is Francois Mitterand. Taking the advice, Kerry unveiled a plan Wednesday to cut the budget deficit by half in four years. No one noticed. With unrest in Iraq growing by the hour, reporters spent the day asking Kerry if the U.S. should ?take out? Shi?ite Ayatollah Moqtada al-Sadr or simply bring the troops home. They ignored Kerry?s repeated attempts to turn their...
Joseph P. Flood ’04, an English concentrator in Mather House and a Crimson editor, recognizes that the openness of the process, even amended, makes rejection more difficult. “If you don’t get into [a creative writing class], you just hope your friend doesn’t either,” he says. “If you know somebody on that list it may hit home a little harder.” Even do-gooders are subject to the sting of rejection. This past February, nearly 50 students applied to spend Spring...
Maass’ first book, Muddy Waters: The Army Engineers and the Nation’s Rivers, was published in 1951 and criticized the Army Corp of Engineers for shortcomings in its management of water resources, flood control and navigation procedures and for its relationship with special interests...