Word: high-level
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite his high-level Hollywood contacts and ever-mounting cash flow, Carell claims to maintain some level of bewilderment about his sudden success. “This whole thing is weird. It’s funny, a couple of weeks ago, my sister-in-law asked my wife, ‘Has Steve changed?’ I thought that was the funniest thing to ask. Into what...
...governmentally organized systems of cruelty.” One key and controversial legal advisor to the Bush administration—now on the Harvard Law faculty—was originally scheduled to participate in last night’s event. Professor of Law Jack L. Goldsmith, who held high-level posts at the Pentagon and the Justice Department during President Bush’s first term, was criticized by a handful of Harvard Law School faculty members last year who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration justify harsh treatment of detainees. But the Wall Street Journal and other...
...don’t think that happens in women’s basketball,” Sullivan adds. “Women might choose the Ivy League over a high-level scholarship school, [but] we just don’t see the guys doing that. We don’t see Jerome Allen anymore. We don’t see Matt Maloney anymore...
...Gaghan did what everyone in Hollywood does--lunch. Sitting across from Baer for the first time, at a Santa Monica restaurant called Pedals ("A little fey for a high-level spook meeting," says Gaghan) in 2002, he sensed that the ex-spy, who was once accused of trying to arrange the assassination of Saddam Hussein, was far better movie material than his book. As it happened, Baer, who speaks Farsi and Arabic, was a willing conduit into the culture and characters of the Middle East. "Summer was ending, and I had to take my daughter back to boarding school...
...received his influenza vaccine. It wasn't an ordinary flu jab. In February of that year, an 18-year-old U.S. Army recruit had died of a swine flu virus, which scientists at the time believed was closely related to the virus that had caused the 1918 influenza pandemic. High-level disease experts worried that the new virus signaled the return of the 1918 flu, and barely a month after the soldier's death, Ford announced an unprecedented emergency plan to inoculate the entire American population against swine flu. This decisive leadership was supposed to represent a crowning triumph...