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...years ago, when the Ford Explorer was about to make its debut, Ford discovered it had a problem: In internal tests, the Explorer notched a worse rollover rate than rival Chevy's Blazer, and worse even than - gasp - its own notoriously tipsy Bronco II. The Explorer "must at least be equivalent to the [Bronco II] in these maneuvers to be considered acceptable for production," a Ford engineer wrote in a 1989 memo. Something had to be done; this was to be a family...
...some justification for dragging its feet. Open access, it argues, could lead to hacking and - gasp! - spamming, and it rightly assumes that one of the things its 90 million registered users (who exchange 651 million messages a day) cherish about IM is that it's unadulterated by the viral threats and cybercrap that litter their traditional e-mail accounts. AOL's proposal, besides being in the play-nice-with-Washington mold that Microsoft eschewed to its peril, has the added advantage of being utterly theoretical for the foreseeable future. Said IETF co-chairman Vijay Saraswat, whose group has been mulling...
...senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl doesn't see any signs that Greenspan got any more than he bargained for. "The markets are having a little panic about how much this slowdown will affect earnings," he said (although investors warmed up again in the afternoon when Greenspan announced that technology -- gasp! -- was good for productivity). "But right now, it doesn't look like any more than the soft landing, from 5 percent growth to about 3.5 percent, that the Fed has been trying to engineer." In fact, says Baumohl, there are some on the Fed's Open Market Committee who feel...
...other words, TV is history. It may even be--gasp!--worth taking seriously. But those who fail to learn from TV history are doomed to make bad repeats...
...Revolutionary War movie? Actually, by all appearances, it looks like Braveheart 2. Mel Gibson stars in another earth-shattering epic carnage movie from the director of Independence Day and-gasp!-Godzilla. So it could be good popcorn fun or well, just terrible. According to published reports, the first 40 minutes are wonderfully deep-so maybe we'll actually get some decent dialogue. (But I'm petrified that Gibson will give his "They'll never take our freedom" speech as "They'll never take our tea.") Heath Ledger (soooo silly in Ten Things I Hate About You) is said to give...