Word: roomier
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Though most of the customers Criscuoll has spoken with praised the "roomier and welcoming" renovations, one individual offered some criticism of the store's auditory drawback—the high ceiling and open space could yield poor acoustics...
...bead on the 12 propositions that will be on the state's ballot. From gay marriage to farm animals' quarters to the state's energy policy, voters have a lot of decisions to make. Proposition 2 - whose opponents and proponents have raised millions in their fights - would require roomier confinements for farm animals, mainly chickens. Animal rights groups are adamant these changes be made for the animals' well-being and health; opponents say these changes are costly and would put farmers out of business. Propositions 7 and 10 are initiatives that would curb greenhouse gas emissions from utilities and vehicles...
...hours from her home in San Rafael. "Prices are going up on everything, and we have a mortgage and a family to support," says the working mom, who expects to scrimp even more by packing her family of four into her 1994 Honda Civic instead of taking her roomier--but gas-slurping...
...Hillary Clinton's buckraking, past and present - especially the ex-President's cornucopia of sleazy companions in recent years - but Rezko's suspicious visage was plastered all over the evening news on a nightly basis. It was not good that Obama had consulted with the guy to buy a roomier plot for the Senator's Chicago home, even if Obama had paid market price for it and pronounced the move "boneheaded" in retrospect. There was also Obama's strange NAFTA flap with the Canadians, in which one of his top economic advisers assured America's northern neighbor - accurately, no doubt...
...engines. That began to change in 1998, when government restrictions on maximum minicar size (owners are eligible for discounts in annual car taxes worth at least $200) increased to 3.3 m long and 1.5 m wide. The bump in dimensions gave manufacturers creative space to build better, roomier models-most now have four doors-and alleviated consumer concerns about safety and comfort. "I feel perfectly safe in a minicar," says Ayako Yamamoto, a 57-year-old housewife in Nagasaki prefecture whose family owns a kei and a minitruck. "The interior is very spacious, and it drives just as well...