Word: interruptible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
McFarlane's near tragedy did not interrupt the flow of Iranscam revelations. The presidential commission, headed by former Republican Senator John Tower of Texas, postponed its report for one week, until Feb. 26, after announcing that it had discovered "new material" on the scandal. Reports are that the new evidence consists of computer records, thought to have been lost, detailing far-flung and possibly illegal efforts to raise money for the Nicaraguan contras by former National Security Council Aide Oliver North...
...understanding of the laws [against drinking and drugs] is the principle that drugs that intoxicate the brain have an effect of not letting your behaviors interact with your soul," Diessner says. "They interrupt the dialectic between the soul and the body...
...dinosaurs and G.I. Joes. But it is not only the myths that endure: often, traces of childhood still lurk beneath the tough hide of adults. This holds true, we found last week, even when those grownups work for TIME. Editors, writers and reporter-researchers often found it necessary to interrupt their tasks to poke through the mountain of dolls, blocks and robots that was amassed for the story in an empty office on our 26th floor...
...before swamping the administration with complaints that it never pays any attention to students, critics should remember this: your adviser may never come knocking on the door to find out what you are up to, but at least you can be sure that University officials won't interrupt your parties...
...Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners and program their VCRs--all through the digital keypads of their mobile phones. When appliances break down, homeowners will plug them into diagnosis outlets, dial the manufacturers and be told in a flash precisely what has gone wrong. Television sets will interrupt broadcasts to announce that clothes dryers have completed their cycles. Viewers, with the press of a key, will tell those dryers to run the clothes through one more time...