Word: okayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Okay, you won't find the last item in every Russian picnic basket, but Natalya Mironova and Gosman Kabriov aren't your average picnickers - and the sweeping lakes that surround the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, 1400 km (870 miles) southeast of Moscow, aren't your average fishing holes. In fact, Mironova and Kabriov are anti-nuclear activists. Chelyabinsk isn't far from the massive Mayak nuclear complex, which processed materials for the first Soviet atomic weapons. During the 1940s and '50s, Mayak pumped nuclear waste directly into the rivers that ran through villages in the area, exposing hundreds of thousands...
...fair that someone has to hide their identity for being gay?” Slack asked. Azkaban proved that “prison torture is not okay,” he said, while the Daily Prophet’s poor coverage of Voldemort’s return was likened to the mainstream media’s failure to cover the early stages of the Darfur genocide...
...tolerating rather than enjoying all the attention, and he looked a bit startled when Edwards, kicking off the third and final day of his eight-state poverty tour, seized on his story and got angry on his behalf. "We have to do something about this! This is not okay!" the candidate said. "How can we allow this to happen, that James had to live 50 years without treatment? Are you listening? This is America's problem. And let me tell you, as long as I am alive and breathing I'm going to do something about...
...Complaining is an absolute necessity in this zero-sum service economy, and I am not shy about doing it - in what I like to think is a reasonable way. Okay, there was that sarcastic series of letters to Hertz, but shouldn't they actually have cars on hand if you've reserved one? Anyway, we've patched that one up. And companies absolutely need to hear about problems, otherwise they can't improve and you'll still be unhappy...
...harder for us to get a new corporate headquarters," says Al Petrie, a New Orleans investor and media relations consultant who has extensive ties with the energy industry. Katrina's chaotic aftermath and slow recovery are "forcing people to make a decision right now," he says. "They're saying, 'okay, if the infrastructure of the city is not going to be there, what's the quality of life for my employees going to be?' That's the reason the Chevrons of the world are moving across the lake. They're not ready to leave the state, but if there...