Word: schulze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congress' gross ineptitude. The center's construction will cost at least $600 million and is at least three years behind schedule. It is now supposed to be finished by September 2008, but even that date will likely be pushed back. "This is a beautiful disaster," says Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schulz , a Florida Democrat and the chair of an ongoing House hearing on the center's progress. Quips Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican who also chaired the hearings until 2004, "We will have Iraq figured out before the center is finished...
...aspiring cartoonist who drew a comic strip for his local paper wanted to get wider distribution for his work. So he took it to a syndication service. An editor at the syndicate liked the strip but didn't care for the name, so he changed it. To Peanuts. Charles Schulz always hated that name. In 1987 he told an interviewer, "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing and has no dignity--and I think my humor has dignity." Schulz's name for his comic strip was Li'l Folks, which admittedly isn't that much more dignified...
...Senior Jennifer Harlow had a strong finish in the women’s 15K classic, moving up to 23rd with a time of 56:02.1. Not far behind, freshman Audrey Mangan also improved to 31st place in the classic, finishing in 57:09.2. Harlow, Mangan, and sophomore Anna Schulz led the women in the 3x6 freestyle relay, sliding in 14th of 19 teams in just under a minute, while sophomore Dave McCahill, junior Oliver Burruss, and freshman Trevor Petach landed the men in 13th of 20 teams with a time of 47:06.3. “That?...
...someone looking at my test, I would turn to them and whisper, “I’m a football player.” That would stop them pretty quickly. After all, everyone knows that football players are not worth cheating off of because of their general incompetence (Schulz, Charles; “Kick the Football, Charlie Brown...
...Bush years have been very challenging and confusing for the human rights community because Bush has advanced his agenda under the guise and in the language of defending human rights,” Schulz said. “The war in Iraq is descended in the name of humanitarian intervention to protect the world from Saddam and protect the Iraqi people, yet at the same time the world, even the U.S., ignores the true need for humanitarian intervention in Darfur...