Word: pads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real work gets done. To succeed is to succumb, often to the courtship of big-ticket donors...
...many reasons. Because it's Paris, it's this place, it's my girlhood dream come true. Because in 1969, when I was 22, I came to Paris for the first time and stayed just around the corner, in a French crash pad at 9 rue Campagne Premiere. It was a six-floor walk up, with like eight people, and we all slept on the floor. I did a lot of drawings, and taped them all over the walls. And now these drawings are going to be on exhibition here. It's very moving for me. These drawings were done...
...jobs is bound to keep Beijing's economic policymakers, who fear the political consequences of widespread social unrest, up at night. Sun, the Lehman Brothers economist, says as manufacturers are pushed to the brink, China's stock markets could see sharp declines. Given that many large, listed Chinese companies pad their profits by investing in stocks themselves, "a big correction could bring [corporate earnings] even lower, and a vicious cycle could result," says...
...walls slowly crumbled, vanishing from view until German archaeologists began unearthing their foundations at the end of the 19th century. World War I halted their efforts, and today conflict once again threatens the rediscovery of Babylon. After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. Army built a helicopter pad on the site of the city's remains. A report by the British Museum claims soldiers have crushed ancient paving stones with tanks, carelessly filled construction sandbags with precious artifacts, and dug trenches - one of them 560 ft. (170 m) long - through archaeological deposits. All of this...
...into the second period. After junior Brian McCafferty recovered the puck in the Crimson zone, he dished it ahead to senior forward Paul Dufault. Dufault found Michael Biega at center, who hit Dufault again on the right side, and the senior pushed it through Dekanich’s pads, giving Biega his second assist on the night.Six minutes later, Harvard took its only lead of the night when sophomore Alex Biega scored on a blue-line slapshot from the right side off of a Pier Olivier-Michaud faceoff win. That lead didn’t last long, however, as Colgate...