Word: lingos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They are going to make 2 million of these little silicon discs--burn them, in the lingo--and then they will be richer. Their game, Diablo II, an Internet-based slasher romp, has been described by at least one game-industry magazine as the "most anticipated in history." Diablo, their first game, was among the best selling ever, moving a couple million CD-ROMs, making the game's co-creators, brothers Erich Schaefer, 34, and Max Schaefer, 32, multimillionaires. But what is striking about walking into the Blizzard North building in Menlo Park, Calif., is not the casualness...
...rebellious, radical, ex-druggie has seen it all, and while she admits she once worshipped drugs as her god, she now believes in nothing except the here and now and perhaps in retribution. Cyrus, thought it's difficult to decipher his rambling stream of consciousness full of cult lingo, believes in power, and perhaps in death and evil as ways of obtaining and maintaining it. However, while these philosophical debates are not as gripping as the rest of the novel, the do not take away from Teran's amazing character development and they allow a few brief moments...
...Breakage is on the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist for 1998. Now a professor at Amherst College, Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England. His British heritage, apparent in his writing, dominates many of his poems concerned with historical events in English history or merely sprinkles his other poetry with British lingo and allusions...
...HARVARD LINGO...
...defense business from General Electric Co. of Britain. But European business also seems to be playing by a set of new and bloodthirsty rules. In a clean break with the clubby, amicable deal making of the past, a new breed of European corporate strategist is talking the North American lingo of hostile takeovers, poison pills and white knights, and behaving accordingly. Even some of the friendlier activity reflects the dominance of America's hardball tactics...