Word: metrical
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...childhood is a study in contradictions: he describes how his mother showered him with gifts but couldn’t care for him because she was on the strip selling drugs; how his aunts and uncles were always home but always high; and how he learned about fractions and metric conversions, not in school but on the job. (In the title of the book, “pieces” refers to small quantities of crack measured in ounces while “weight” refers to a full kilo...
...serves as executive director of the London-based Band Aid Trust and U.S. Live Aid Foundation. At least $34 million has already been spent for famine relief, says Jenden, which provided 17,000 tons of grain, 2,000 tons of milk powder, 1,200 tons of sugar and 350 metric tons of biscuits. More than $40 million will go toward long-term development projects, such as irrigation and reforestation...
...revenue stream in addition to subscriber fees. But Sirius doesn't pay for any of the traditional audience-tracking services like Arbitron, instead surveying listeners by e-mail and phone, so Sirius can't tell advertisers how many folks are listening in a given quarter-hour, a key metric advertisers use to negotiate rates. "Our clients aren't falling over themselves to advertise on satellite radio," says Jon Mandel, chairman of the ad-buying firm MediaCom US. Karmazin says he is confident that his stars will earn their keep. "What makes the difference is content," he says in an interview...
...Appeals, ruling in favor of the conservationists, decreed that within 90 days the Government must order Japan to reduce its catch of fish in American waters by 50%. That would be a serious economic blow to the Japanese, who took in roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million metric tons of fish caught by foreigners off U.S. shores last year. The Administration, not eager to rock its relations with Japan, may ask the Court of Appeals for a rehearing of the case and could possibly take the issue to the Supreme Court. The outcome will determine when Japan's whalers...
DIED. ROBERT CREELEY, 78, among the most influential American poets of the past half-century and the 1999 winner of the Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...