Word: seconded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have renounced moviegoing - attending to more manly pursuits like watching football games and begging God's forgiveness - but moms and their kids went, or went back, to the CGI fable about meteorological cuisine. Meatballs grossed just 17% less than it did in its opening weekend, one of the smallest second-session drops in recent memory...
...Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $24.6 million; $60 million, second week 2. Surrogates, $15 million, first weekend 3. Fame, $10 million, first weekend 4. The Informant!, $6.9 million; $21 million, second week 5. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, $4.8 million; $44.5 million, third week 6. Pandorum, $4.4 million, first weekend 7. Love Happens, $4.3 million; $14.7 million, second week 8. Jennifer's Body, $3.5 million; $12.3 million, second week 9. 9, $2.8 million; $27.1 million, third week 10. Inglourious Basterds, $2.7 million; $114.5 million, sixth week...
What happens when a thin person takes a small portion? Again, we tend to mimic those around us. For the second test, in one scenario the actor took two pieces of small candy from a set of snack bowls. In the other scenario, she took 30 pieces. Under the lots-of-food condition, the results mimicked the first test: subjects grabbed and ate significantly more candy when the actor was thin. Under the little-food condition, the subjects took the lead of the actor and restrained their candy consumption. However, in this scenario it was the obese lunch date...
...that, the way the tax credit is being implemented at times echoes certain practices that may have helped get us into the housing mess. For example, some state housing agencies are allowed to provide second mortgages to buyers who don't have enough money for a down payment so that they might "monetize" the tax credit and get the cash up front. Down-payment assistance is considered by many to have contributed to the crisis because it helped people buy homes they couldn't really afford. Anyone who doesn't understand that it's a bad idea to push people...
...concluded a four-year trial in which longtime addicts were given daily heroin injections as part of a treatment program to eventually wean them off the drug. Now, with results showing the trial succeeded in reducing street-drug use and crime among participants, Britain could soon become only the second country in Europe to institutionalize the program. That would mean permanent, state-funded heroin clinics would be set up across the country to treat the most heavily addicted people. (See pictures of the dark path of drugs...