Word: mid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Money is being invested in upgraded facilities, such as the construction of a $51 million parade ring with a retractable roof, which opened in November, and a giant outdoor TV screen at the Sha Tin track. And the racing has never been better. In the mid-1990s, Hong Kong-trained horses were barely recognized in international competitions; last season, Hong Kong's own Silent Witness was the world's top-rated sprinter...
...building log houses that capture a rustic feel but still have all the amenities of contemporary custom homes. According to the Log Home Council of the National Association of Home Builders, more than 25,000 log homes are built each year, up from about 7,000 in the mid-1980s. Sales in the U.S. and Canada have more than doubled since 1998, to $1.37 billion. Those homes now account for 7% of the custom-home-building market. And their popularity is widespread, from Colorado to the Catskills...
Alexander, dead more than two millenniums, may appear a remote subject for this agit-historian, whose docudramas have ventured no further into the past than the last mid-century. But the new movie has plenty of contemporary reverberations. This Alexander is a clear model for George W. Bush, pursuing destiny or delusion from the civilized West into Babylon-Baghdad, completing the quest George H.W. Bush left unfinished. Warned that this "was not your father's mission," the young king replies, "And I am not my father...
...future, too. Hollande's rise in the PS has been as unassuming as it has been steady. Tapped in 1997 to occupy the party leadership that Lionel Jospin vacated to become Prime Minister, Hollande found himself captain of a sinking ship after Jospin's presidential bid unexpectedly imploded in mid-2002. Hollande nevertheless forged party unity in the notoriously fractious PS. But the party's fortunes only revived last spring, with stunning wins in regional and European elections, thanks to voters eager to punish Chirac's ruling conservatives. Leading the yes side to victory would reinforce Hollande's bona fides...
...women’s annihilation of their Columbia opposition is the Crimson’s first win over the Lions since the mid-1990s...