Word: scale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Young festival-goers have plenty of alternatives. More than 500 music events of various dimensions have sprung up in fields and glens across the U.K. in recent years. From the posh or quirky to the uber-green, the small-scale boutique festivals put the emphasis on the experience rather than lineup. And with cheap flights and tickets, Brits are heading to Europe in increasing numbers. It was estimated that half those attending Spain's beach-based Benicassim festival (dubbed Glasto del Sol) were British. And while a Glastonbury ticket costs $305, Serbia's Exit Festival is just $170 including nine...
...matters are the earthquakes. While tremors are rare in this part of the country, they can be just as powerful as those in other parts of the world. The so-called New Madrid series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, for instance, are believed to have been on a scale of 8.0 or higher (by comparison, the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California had a 6.7 magnitude). And historically, earthquakes in the Midwest convulse much greater territory than their equivalents in California. Another problem: the region is also affected by the Wabash Seismic Zone. An April 18, 2008, earthquake from that...
...honest, that hope began to darken as I thumbed through the production notes prior to a screening of Get Smart. Many persons involved with the movie prattled on about their swell new action sequences "worthy of any thriller" with their up-to-date "scale and scope." Scale? Scope? Are they kidding? Here's the deal, guys: action sequences are not funny. They never have been and they never will be. For they require that their protagonist set aside his bumbling physical incompetence and start acting decisively and heroically. At which point our connection with him is broken and he becomes...
...self-awareness scale of 1-10, where would you rank your character from The Office, Michael Scott? -Ankur Pandya in CAMBRIDGE, MA0.7. Every now and then he spikes up to about a 4 or a 4.5, but if he were to gain any more self-awareness than he has I believe his head would explode. Once he had the realization as to how other people view him, that would be incredibly difficult...
...over the town hall issue. It will be a war over process, but not an incidental one. Nearly the entire Republican establishment agrees that if the coming campaign is decided at the podium with a teleprompter, McCain has already lost. But if McCain can make the election about small-scale events like town halls, than the Republican has a clear shot at limiting the obvious impact of two of Obama's key strengths, his enormous crowds and his enormous war chest...