Word: format
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recognize, of course, that radio is a very different format from MP3: there's the music-on-demand aspect, for one, and there's the fact that MP3s are full recordings while to get a proper recording off radio requires immaculate timing as you hit the "record" button...
Last night in Danville, Ky., former Secretary of Defense Richard D. Cheney and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) sat at a table with Bernard Shaw and provided a comprehensive overview of the campaign issues. The format--the same that will be used for the presidential debate Tuesday--was a chance for the candidates to explain their tickets' positions without resorting to partisan attacks...
...Maybe it was the format - certainly Cheney seems happier around a table than behind a podium. It could have been the opening pledge, Lieberman's let's-be-nice-tonight version of the Al Gore and Jack Kemp football-for-chlorofluorocarbons gambit, but if it was it a gambit, it paid off for everybody involved. Yes, Cheney's performance was a bit of a revelation, mostly because it really didn't look like a performance (Lieberman, fonder of the Gore catch phrases but so much gentler than Gore when he spits them out, was merely as affable as expected...
...example, the College might get rid of its paper forms for parties, housing and grant applications, Lewis says, and move to an entirely online format...
...Cheney needed another handicap, the relatively informal format of tonight's meeting - which will be held around a table, moderated by CNN's Bernard Shaw - could prove problematic. Cheney?s formal manner is better suited to more traditional debate protocol. If Lieberman can capitalize on his trademark humor early in the exchange, it's hard to imagine Cheney mustering the verbal energy to claim momentum...