Word: metallism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JOINT REPLACEMENT: When the bones in a joint are damaged beyond repair, a substitute joint can in some cases be fashioned out of plastic or metal. Total hip replacement is the most common, but almost any joint, including the knee, thumb, elbow and shoulder, can be replaced...
Twain's desire for privacy is hardly discouraged by him. The Rhodesian-born Lange, 53, started out writing radio jingles before producing heavy metal for AC/DC, disco for Billy Ocean, arena rock for Foreigner and adult contemporary for Bryan Adams. Lange has also written or co-written 135 pop songs, including Do You Believe in Love for Huey Lewis & the News and I Finally Found Someone for Barbra Streisand. He has been honored with numerous awards from the American Society of Composers and Producers and has never accepted a single one. He has not done an interview for 30 years...
...helps assuage this inequity by banning soft money contributions and preventing the broadcast of independently-financed “issue ads,” which are usually misleading and negative. Candidates will have to rely on the squeaks of California field hands, Detroit metal fitters and Cambridge academics to finance their campaigns, not the few booming voices of the wealthy. Smaller contributions, which can be matched with federal funds, will no longer get ignored by politicians who are responsive only to those capable of millions of dollars worth of “free speech...
...reality, the story of Ji and Hsu is more one of dogged, thrifty perseverance. The two became friends in the late 1980s working for a Los Angeles scrap-metal business that exported to China. Hsu was a Taiwanese immigrant who arrived in 1984. Ji came to Los Angeles as a graduate student in 1987, having recently earned his M.B.A., and was sending money home to his wife and daughter in Shanghai...
...formed a scrap-metal business of their own, then started a side business importing speakers and amplifiers, and later DVD players, from China. The first units they imported and sold through Circuit City differed from others sold in the U.S. at the time in that they could play MP3 files. The players also sported a quirk Ji and Hsu say they were unaware of: a manufacturing error allowed users to copy DVDs to videotape and override coding that prevents DVDs of films from being viewed in countries where they have not been released...