Word: measuredness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Root of the Problem Impoverished Haitians have long cut down trees to turn into charcoal. It's a good way to make a few gourdes, but nearly 90% of the country has been deforested, and last week the consequences were measured in bodies. The floods that devastated Haiti and the...
Then again, maybe I just wasn't in much of a mood to listen to speechifying about the international mess last week-certainly not to grand expositions of doctrine and principle tethered only vaguely to the horrors on the ground. My guess is, you're losing patience with being orated...
Of course, practically no one was listening. It was like Nero offering a brilliant water-and-sewage plan for Rome in the midst of the fire. The Bush Iraq policy lay shattered in tiny pieces; the President seemed crestfallen in his public appearances. Indeed, Kerry's message discipline--broken by...
The only way to prove the point is to keep the jets on the tarmac and see what happens. That's exactly what occurred in 2001, between Sept. 11 and 14, when U.S. air travel was shut down following the terrorist attacks. During that period, the swing between daytime highs...
“It was quite an intense process to get clothing from stores,” says fashion coordinator Tessa C. Petrich ’04. Using a leasing policy, the fashionistas of the production were able to borrow clothing in exchange for publicity, and the larger budget also...