Word: parred
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...have a reputation for being slow to adopt new technologies, but big-screen TVs seem to be an exception. A January 2004 survey by the Consumer Electronics Association found that 18% of adults of all ages owned an HDTV and that the rate for those over 50 was on par, at 17% overall and 19% for over...
This banter is par for the course for a Northern California dinner party. And yes, it’s wine talk. I grew up talking like that for 18 years of my life...
...last three years. In the weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary, A-list D.C. pundits were writing columns portraying Lieberman's possible defeat as some sort of cataclysmic event that might foreshadow a dark new phase in American politics - as though voters choosing new representation were on a par with abolishing the Constitution or condoning political violence. But those breathless plaints only showed how disconnected they are from what's happening in the country at large. They mirrored his disconnection from the politics of the moment...
...Keeley of the Center for Immigration Studies says the government should raise the level of enforcement high enough so that the fear of being caught or investigated by the immigration service is on par with the fear of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. He adds that seizure laws could be useful in preventing employers from hiring unauthorized workers much in the way that IRS audits dissuade businesses from cheating on their taxes. But the immigration service would need more funds and there would have to be real commitment on the part of the Administration, something Keeley says does...
...with “Annie Hall” and some of Allen’s other films, it is the director’s nervous tics that drive “Scoop” to hilarity. The other actors’ performances aren’t quite on-par with those of earlier Woody pieces—Jackman’s Australian accent occasionally surfaces, and Johansson’s Sondra is uneven—but they never cause the film to lose comic traction...