Word: rumoredly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sorry, folks, false alarm. Or at least that seems to be the message after the rumor that United Airlines and Delta Air Lines were in merger talks was quashed with Delta CEO Richard Anderson's testimony before Congress on Thursday. Anderson said that he had not spoken with any high-ranking execs at United Airlines since September, when he returned to the airline industry upon taking the helm of the Atlanta-based carrier. The two airlines had already diffused rumors on Wednesday following afternoon spikes in their share prices...
...changed the life of the Star Wars Kid? Probably not. The Internet stripped the boy of his name, of his very identity, and the danger of losing one’s reputation because of the Internet has only increased since then.In “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet,” George Washington Law Professor Daniel J. Solove eloquently postulates that the new freedom of information-flow on the Internet can enslave us by ruining our reputations and preventing us from becoming the people we want to be. This statement is indeed slightly...
...drunkie got a little out of hand Saturday night at the Spee when she slipped in some champagne (what else?) and almost burned some members… Caught in the throes of passion, one Quincy couple was caught in a damn near compromising position in the stairwell… Rumor has it that a certain final club for gentlemen may be opening their doors to a female club…It’s still not clear whether they will share the house equally, or just separate the rooms with tape à la Full House. This weekend everyone who?...
...country that's nutty about gossip, veteran barbers Cesar Larios and Manuel Rodriguez run the engine room of the national rumor mill - ? Managua's landmark Imperial Barbershop. Since this modest three-chair barbershop opened its doors 35 years ago, Rodriguez and Larios have seated, aproned and lathered some of Nicaragua's most important politicians, bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years...
...worry is that Musharraf may not have enough time to do all this. His approval ratings in Pakistan are at an all-time low. By Monday, rumors were spreading of a coup that would oust Musharraf. One had Pakistan's new Vice Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kyani, taking his place. But officials in Washington are not putting much stock in those rumors. For one, Kyani is an old comrade of Musharraf's. Furthermore, military uprisings against Musharraf, they say, are a perpetual rumor in Pakistani politics and impossible to substantiate. It is a testament to the woeful state...