Word: maker
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...than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team piled phrases and phonations from local newspapers, diaries, letters, the Federal Writers' Project state guide series and such other reference works as the Linguistic Atlas of New England. It also scoured more than 500 books of regional literature, including William Faulkner's The Reivers...
Jobs' departure caps months of turmoil that has shaken Apple to its core. The maker of home and office computers lost $17 million in its most recent quarter, the first red ink in the company's history. The firm is still recovering from a sweeping corporate housecleaning this summer in which 1,200 of Apple's 5,850 employees were let go. The company's woes, moreover, have occurred against a backdrop of sluggish sales throughout Silicon Valley and the entire computer industry. The beleaguered firm thus cannot take lightly even the symbolic threat posed by Jobs' new company, which...
...PROPOSED REFERENDUM, sponsored by a local women's group and certified by the city elections commission, defines pornography as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." If approved, the ordinance would allow victims--loosely defined--to seek civil damages against the maker, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...
...petition, which has already been signed and verified by the Cambridge Election Commission, defines pornography as the "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." The ordinance, sponsored by the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...
...initiative petition, signed by more than 5000 registered voters, defines pornography as "the graphic sexuallly explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." As an amendment to the city's newly created Human Rights Commission, the ordinance would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or exhibitor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...