Search Details

Word: overflows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Avoid missions during heavy rain as Chatuchak's drainage system can easily overflow. As much of the market is given over to selling pets and wild animals, you could end up wading shin-deep through feculent, brackish ooze. Not a good call if you've been scratching your infernal mosquito bites raw?unless, of course, you intend to go shopping for tetanus, septicemia or worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tip Off | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...which matches had been scheduled in Shanghai this fall, has been moved out of China. And in a tacit admission that even the most careful of cities can't always escape, Shanghai is building extra SARS wards on the outskirts of town, in case there's a sudden overflow of patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case Study | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...store in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., about half an hour's drive east of Los Angeles, looks like any suburban supermarket. But step inside. Colorful pinatas hang from the ceiling. Bilingual signs promise shoppers el mejor precio. Produce gets lots of territory close by the entrance, where display islands overflow with crunchy jicamas, ripe papayas and dozens of varieties of chili peppers, from fiery serranos to sweet chipotles. The aroma of freshly made tortillas wafts from the bakery. Butchers serve up not only standard cuts of beef, poultry and fish but also Mexican specialties like the spicy pork sausage chorizo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh from The Border | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...made by people with no access to any statistical information about Harvard students’ dining habits. For example, when a House hosts a faculty dinner or enforces its dining restrictions particularly strongly, it is inefficient and counterproductive for nearby Houses to tighten their restrictions in anticipation of the overflow...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: To Dine in Peace | 2/26/2003 | See Source »

...identity. And remember, America is also an ex-British colony." Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, chose the Harlem venue and is equally rhapsodic about its suitability. "It's a natural place for this adventure. There's a vitality to Harlem that is alive and present; your senses overflow there with so many impressions. That's an obvious parallel with the India of this novel." (Bollinger is also a practical man, so audiences will be bussed to and from the Apollo.) The play will return to Britain in April for a national tour. For the RSC, it represents a much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight Matinee | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

Previous | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Next