Word: hanged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thank god for Corliss and his ideas for saving the Oscars. He is right: they do need a change. Right now the show is like the drama-club awards in high school. And nobody wanted to hang out with those kids, cuz they were, like, so weird. The Oscars should totally be a popularity contest, like electing Homecoming Queen. Then, finally, some good movies could win Best Picture. Like Norbit. Or Wild Hogs. Or 300. While you're at it, Mr. Corliss, could you jazz up the presidential race? Who cares about all these debates on stuff nobody understands...
...discovered is that everybody is concerned about the number of human beings on the planet. Whether you are an environmentalist or just somebody who likes to go out and ride a three-wheel bike or go hunting, all the places that you remember as a kid that you could hang out in are now filled with strip malls and industrial parks. At the end of the book I drop one last interesting fact: Every four days there's a million more people on the planet. That's difficult math when you think how we've already stretched everything...
...containers for shipment to multiple destinations. DeGolyer says the overtures toward Hong Kong-Shenzhen integration are an outgrowth of this natural symbiosis. "China likes the idea that bigger is better, more is better," says DeGolyer. "What they're saying with this report is, It's better for us to hang together, than to hang separately...
...people who eventually cheated went to the site with the intention of doing so or got drawn in by the fantasy of it all is unclear. Whichever, the sites sure seem like a profitable place for people like the guy behind me on the pre-Christmas flight to hang...
...kidding. Hong Kong's economy has been on a tear lately: bolstered by a booming mainland and the Hong Kong dollar's peg to a weakening U.S. currency, the Hang Seng Index gained 39% in 2007. A recent survey by TNS and Gallup International showed that Hong Kong people are the most optimistic in the world on the general outlook for 2008, with 71% expecting the coming year to be better than the last. All that prosperity is causing headaches for Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, who are finding it harder to make their cause relevant. In November...