Word: roundness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...batters later, Abeles stepped up to theplate and added some more excitement to thecontest. The sophomore shortstop sent a toweringhome run soaring over the leftfield fence for herIvy League-best 10th round-tripper of the year.The ball landed approximately 50 feet beyond thefence...
...three times higher than the deep discounters charge (see chart). Schwab's secret has been to knock down the wall between its online business and its 5 million regular account holders, giving everyone access to the entire range of products and services available at the firm. These include round-the-clock, dial-up brokers and technical support, and a financial supermarket that offers 1,500 different mutual funds...
Sarah was born in 1989, with her father's round face and her mother's light features. "We immersed ourselves in the child," Shah says. Two years later, Genevieve--Vivi--arrived, with her mother's long face and her father's dark features. The girls' finger paintings decorated the kitchen. Each had her own bedroom. Out back, they shared a jungle...
Alongside Astor's kind of optimism, the Socialist critique of society and the era's muckraking passions continued, contributing darker shades to images of the future. In 1903 William Wallace Cook, a newspaperman and free-lance writer, published A Round Trip to the Year 2000, in which robots known as "muglugs" displace human workers, sending them to live out a miserable existence somewhere in the Midwest (a vision not designed to cheer chambers of commerce in the heartland). Voracious capitalism has triumphed. The "Air Trust" sells the very air people breathe; the "Sun Trust" forces the public to pay even...
...merger passes regulatory muster, it could signal the start of a new round of combinations. Already AT&T and Bell Atlantic are both eyeing BellSouth as an attractive dance partner. And Ameritech could give SBC the muscle to realize CEO Edward Whitacre's long-held dream -- a takeover of the mothership via a merger with AT&T.