Word: serious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ebert has been battling serious medical problems for the past two years and has been off the air since the summer of 2006. But his departure now stems from a dispute with Disney, the distributor for At the Movies, over the show's famous trademark thumbs-up/thumbs-down verdict on films. The rights to that trademark belong to Ebert and the widow of Gene Siskel, Ebert's original co-host. Ebert's departure from the show apparently comes after he and Disney could not come to an agreement on compensation related to the trademark...
...year-old Navy ensign, when he helped devise a plan (called off at the last moment by Eisenhower) to relieve the ill-fated French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Subsequent postings took him to Beirut, as well as ambassadorships in Zaire, Somalia and Pakistan. His dead-serious demeanor, reflected in his craggy, Lincolnesque features, makes Oakley a poor companion for swapping jokes or, as one old friend put it, ''having him over to the house to get drunk in front of the fire.'' But such intensity has endeared him to colleagues, even those who received wake-up calls...
...Mahmud the Red claim that his trial is about Islam and not about the bombing of the World Trade Center. Any religion with its foundations enmeshed in brutal wars and the use of jihads, and with some adherents who display an inclination toward bizarre violence, deserves nothing less than serious scrutiny by all right-thinking persons. Gbenga Oduntan Lagos, Nigeria...
...John's still not half as big as any of the regional Bell companies.'' So deep are Bell Atlantic's pockets that it announced a $1.04 billion investment in Grupo Iusacell, a Mexican cellular- phone company, the day before unveiling its plans to buy TCI. Yet the deal raised serious doubts about whether the imperious Malone could peacefully coexist with the studious Smith. ''The U.S. Army wasn't big enough for Generals Patton and Bradley,'' notes Ronald Altman, who watches the communications industry for the firm Furman Selz. ''The question is, will Bell Atlantic be big enough for both Smith...
...serious about reducing carbon emissions, we'll need a much larger renewable energy sector than the one we have - and that will mean bipartisan government action, in the form of carbon caps and subsidies that dwarf the miniscule tax credits now available. Our government's inability to cooperate and fund an invaluable energy program that costs less than a $1 billion a year is simply unreasonable - no matter what you think about global warming...