Word: meter
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...while they tell me exciting news from home, like which birds have been frequenting our backyard feeder or about the new “yield” sign on our street. But let’s face it: When our parents come to visit us in college, our stress meter reaches...
Desultory frames of grass, statues, a parking meter, and a parking lot litter the video with overwhelming feelings of loneliness and desolation. At the end, we hear Blunt coo about being “so hollow” and we see Barton in her bed alone as well. The suggested affair has possibly come to a close, leaving her just as stranded as her former lover. The only thing that we’re sure of in the end, and indeed one of the few sure things in life, is that James Blunt...
...Vienna's sex and drug trades were centered around the Gürtel, or "belt," as locals term the outer ring road laid out in an 1890 city plan by renowned architect Otto Wagner. Prostitutes filled the pay-per-hour hotels and drug dealers lined the grimy streets, every meter of which seemed covered in lurid graffiti. But in 1996, municipal authorities[an error occurred while processing this directive] launched an urban-regeneration scheme that today is starting to bear real fruit. The sex workers and pushers are gone and a Gürtel address...
...Italian and German seniors are also getting in on the rush - and the British contingent is becoming active in the higher-end sector. But as in any hot market, increased activity means rising prices. "Certain properties in beach areas have increased from €100 to €300 per square meter in three years," says Alteresco. Annual rise across the board, he estimates, has ranged from 80-100% over the past few years. That's been a trend everywhere Europeans have started to call home. During her 11 years as a resident of Marrakech - where she's worked as an interior...
...Association, the new rules "leave far too many people at risk of serious harm - even premature death - from breathing unhealthy, polluted air." The Lung Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association all favor a daily standard of 25 microgram per cubic meter of air for fine particles and an annual limit of 12 micrograms per cubic meter...