Search Details

Word: jointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Prime Number $7000 in compensation is entitled to each of 1 million survivors of Nazi slave-labor camps, from a joint fund created by German industry and government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...cards; the first PCs demanded typed DOS commands; the mouse gave us a graphic interface. Will we one day be able to enter the world of computing with no external mechanical intermediary whatsoever - in other words, just by thinking? Researchers around the globe are working on the problem. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, for example, has developed the Adaptive Brain Interface, a helmet and software program (like the one in Korea) intended to allow disabled people to operate appliances using thought commands. At the British government's Defense Evaluation and Research Agency, in Farnborough, the same techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Power | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...teenager, Farrell contemplated a career in professional football-his father, Eamonn Farrell, played for Shamrock Rovers-but "I'd drink two liters of cider, smoke a joint and start looking at birds. Couldn't make training after that." Acting proved more of a challenge, and he went from drama school to the stage of London's Donmar Warehouse to film and television. Then one day he heard Schumacher was holding auditions in London for Tigerland. Not having read the script, Farrell-who uses swearwords as freely as most people use nouns-earned himself a callback on charm alone. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Stole The Movies | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Last week Cambridge Representative Alice K. Wolf presented a bill to the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation seeking to extend T operating hours until 2:30 a.m. every night. The members of the Committee have favored a wait-and-see approach based upon an annual trial of extended bus hours on weekends to study the feasibility of late-night travel in the Boston area. While we would welcome late-night buses running to and from Harvard Square, we would encourage members of the committee to think daringly and decisively and to give Boston adequate late-night transportation both...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Later Bedtime for the T | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Arizona Activities at the joint-service Barry M. Goldwater Range under review for possible threat to Sonoran pronghorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farewell To Arms? | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | 553 | 554 | 555 | 556 | 557 | 558 | 559 | 560 | 561 | Next