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...suppose we applied the reliability standards and pricing schemes of New Economy products to the items above. One-inch-thick steel would only be 1 in. thick on weekend nights and holidays. During weekday business hours, it would be one-third of an inch thick; and if one carried the steel outside one's "area," it would cost six times as much. Refrigerators would chill eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh...
...completely domesticated by age and commercial calculation. One way that rock bands keep their distance from respectability these days is by shouting "F___" a few dozen times on every album. (Or even "I wanna f___ you like an animal," as Trent Reznor famously offered on one of his Nine Inch Nails albums.) Rock is still all tied up with sex and drugs, and it's a supremely subtle parent who can share all kinds of music with her kids without also seeming to endorse the troubling stuff. On this past New Year's Eve, the Experience Music Project sponsored...
...Tuesday night when he takes the prime-time stage and delivers his budget address to a joint session of Congress with the nation watching. This was what Bill Clinton lived for, the annual sales presentation, and though the man could go on and on, he always his made his inch-by-inch priorities sound like the right, pain-feeling things to do, and afterward the Republicans always sounded stingy and mean...
...have a clone. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pa., and her name is Diana. She's my body double: blond hair, hazel eyes and fair skin. She's half an inch taller, but we have the same voices and the same mannerisms. We're both unmarried. We love to read, we relish Mexican food, and we get the same patches of dry skin in winter. We both play tennis and golf. O.K., she's funnier than I am--but just a little...
...their victory or loss, but rather on the balance of their own popularity. Politicians interpret their margin of victory as the length of the leash granted to their governance. (A fact that should make the next four years very amusing, if nothing else.) By voting, young people get an inch--no matter how small--of the leash granted to our politicians. More plainly, by voting, young people help to set the bounds on what is politically acceptable. We can contribute to the mandate...