Word: pound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks begin to drift by, the vision comes into focus, and while my wallet has the extra punch of a Corporate American Express card, I won’t be running to Foxwoods to place a million pound bet in baccarat—instead, I’ll be buying books to train myself in computer software. My license to kill has not yet been issued, but my license to search through public SEC filings for corporate tax return data seemed to arrive on my first day. Instead of a military-issued pistol and silencer, I’m armed...
Hard drives are the collective memories of our cleverest machines, the indispensable intellects of the information age. Yet Scott Gaidano, 58, president of DriveSavers, detests them. Most any data-storage device is, to his mind, a ridiculous piece of machinery. Ask him why, and he will pound his desk with frustration as he tells you how obscenely sensitive it is: a hunk of metal whirring around at 10,000 r.p.m. that dies if you drop it from 5 ft. The more we store on them--these days, everything from tax records to baby pictures--the more painful their death...
...seen just about enough when Topjian’s roommate, Christopher Roma-Agvanian ’03, who is working the game as a food vendor, finds us behind the BoSox bullpen. Clad in a yellow apron and matching Boston hat, Roma-Agvanian gives Topjian and FM a pound and looks awkwardly at Suga, who offers a pound but receives a handshake. Roma-Agvanian says he has worked over 300 games at Fenway and boasts of the peanut-tossing arm he has developed. “I’ll hit you 50 rows up,” he says...
After age 40, adults lose a quarter to a third of a pound of muscle a year and gain that much body fat, a condition known as sarcopenia. "You get that typical, pudgy 'old-person look,'" says Nelson, "and eventually you become so weak, you can't walk up stairs or get out of a chair without help." Twice weekly 45-minute sessions of strength training, she says, can reverse or prevent age-related muscle loss. In four weeks, grocery bags feel lighter, and in six weeks, arthritis pain may lessen. Women in Nelson's weight-training studies usually drop...
...recession, with growth and unemployment rates significantly worse than Britain's. The U.K.'s continually solid economic performance has been one of Labour's great bedrocks, and Brown has no desire to risk that. Neither do voters: polls regularly show that about two-thirds want to keep the pound. Blair doesn't want to take the vote to the people until he can win - plunging into a losing referendum fight now, he believes, would be disastrous...