Search Details

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


Usage:

...replace a damaged or diseased one. In the never-ending tug between organ supply and demand, the scales have never tipped in favor of the patient; only a fraction of the people needing a new kidney, liver or heart actually receive one. To move people off the organ-waiting list, doctors either have to boost the supply of donors, or improve the viability of existing organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Kidney Transplant | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...year college with a long tradition of Harvard transfers. And spurred by this same caution about residential constraints, the admissions office took a conservative approach to applicants for the class of 2012, announcing the lowest admissions rate in recent memory, before admitting an unprecedented 200 students off the wait list when its acceptance rate dropped slightly...

Author: By Crimson News Staff | Title: Top 10 Stories of 2008 | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...integrity, his ego has been the subject of much local commentary. A 2002 profile in the Chicago Tribune described a mausoleum he raised for himself in a cemetery on the city's South Side. The words TRAIL BLAZER are carved into stone on the monument along with a long list of accomplishments. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington recalled a job interview she once had with Burris. "The session lasted one hour," she wrote. "He spent 55 minutes talking about himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Senate Seat: Blagojevich Keeps On Giving | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...point is that both sides have got to learn to give a little. Last year, when TIME put Raúl Castro on its list of the world's 100 most influential people - because he had taken over for Fidel Castro as interim President and looked to be moving Cuba in a more pragmatic direction - the magazine got scorn from U.S. officials. This year, when TIME put Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez on the list - for the impact she's had on political blogging around the world - Cuban officials complained in turn. They're entitled to their opinion, but both camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, Will the Cold War End? | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

Like Dashiell Hammett, Crumley wrote only a handful of books. But as with Hammett, Crumley's short list seems likely to endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Crumley | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 328 | 329 | 330 | 331 | 332 | 333 | 334 | 335 | 336 | 337 | 338 | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | Next