Word: playground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ewing was good for at least one acrobatic rejection a game, a solid playground stuff that makes everybody cringe--but he couldn't defend shorter, bulkier post players and his offense seemed theoretical at best...
...Harvard changed from a place that was the playground of the rich to something that was based on merit," Segall says...
...that you need a new PC every six months. The one-size-fits-all approach is like making a car that is also a boat and that rides like a helicopter. Trying to fly will result in short hops and frequent crashes! Microsoft is the big bully in the playground kicking over everybody else's board games. HENRY ISI ODIASE London...
...general gulp so hard, and it wasn't because the kids played well--a more off-key version rendered with greater intensity would be hard to imagine. It's that they played at all. With public schools fighting for necessities like books for the library and balls for the playground, niceties like music had been left to wither away, and many schools, especially in the cities, ended up with no music...
...then the European bourses surged -- along with the yen and the euro -- on the prospect of the Big Bad American Economy being brought just a little bit low. See, the dollar, bolstered by investors and buttressed by rising interest rates, has been beating up the other currencies in the playground all spring. To keep their own currency up, the Europeans especially have felt pressure to hike their own rates along with Greenspan, thus endangering the nice little expansion they've got going over in euroland. Now everybody from Wall Street to Wittenberg figures they can relax a little, because Uncle...