Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a brief investigation, police concluded that Prentice climbed over a six foot wall onto the greenhouse and fell through its glass ceiling...
When a police officer heard the sound of glass breaking and noticed the damage the falling rocks had done to two cars parked on the street below, the students found themselves in trouble...
...course of the inventory, a little before 10:30 a.m., the researchers handled a glass two-liter bottle of the caustic chemical isopropyl chloroformate, an eye and skin irritant, and then replaced it on a top shelf...
...state hearing argued that a couple of drinks "might improve driving ability." The Republican-controlled House Rules Committee, legislating under the influence of liquor-lobby money (nearly $17 million since 1987; Speaker Newt Gingrich got the most), killed the tougher standard last week. So let's raise a glass--or four--to the audacious more-careful-drunk theory...
There are few permanent rules in the world of finance--maybe only one: make money--and even those are starting to come unbuttoned. In the past 10 years, decades of regulations--such as the Glass-Steagall Act, passed in the Depression to help limit risk following a banking-system failure--have been all but abandoned, a testament to the fact that all markets move on--and none faster than money markets. The last time this happened was in 1982, when the Garn-St. Germain Act repealed old regulations and allowed savings and loans to graze for investments in areas like...