Word: highlighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suspected that these trend-setters were in fact the world’s most intentionally unkempt marketing reps. It would be an understatement to say that the “free shit” was a hit, as was the ensuing screening of a snowboarding highlight reel accompanied by rap and European-sounding techno. All in all, it was an evening filled with plenty of advertising and mainstream music...
...Highlight Reel: 1. One in six are uninsured: The ranks of the uninsured in America under age 65 grew by 700,000 last year, largely because of the layoffs and wage slashes that accompanied the weak economy. Two million people lost their employer-sponsored health coverage in 2008 alone. Since 2000, the total number of uninsured has risen every year...
...where Obama was woken by the call. Gibbs has declined to describe the exact words that Obama used to describe his surprise at the news, but the President was happy to boast about his own daughters' comments to him later in the morning, an anecdote that served to highlight Obama's humble acceptance of the controversial award. "Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" (See TIME's photo-essay "Fun with Photoshop: Obama's Other Awards...
...Highlight Reel: 1. Why you can't avoid gridlocked hubs: "69% of all air travelers in the United States traveled exclusively between the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Another 29.9% of passengers traveled through one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas at some point in their trip. In sum, 98.8% of all passengers in the most recent twelve months passed through at least one of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. In the U.S., air travel is clearly a large metropolitan phenomenon." (See photos of protests against Heathrow Airport's expansion...
...young girl, “Miss Sweetie Poo”, marched across the stage to indicate that it was time for the laureates to wrap up. “Please stop, I’m bored. Please stop, I’m bored,” she repeated. The highlight of the Igs? Watching Elena N. Bodnar, this year’s Ig Nobel Public Health Laureate, attempt to wrap her brassiere-turned-gas-masks around the faces of (real) Nobel Laureates Wolfgang Ketterle, Orhan Pamuk, and Paul R. Krugman. Did we mention she had been wearing that very...