Word: shorted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though the nine women who left in 2007 stop short of alleging gender discrimination, they cite various instances in which they felt subject to pressures that their male colleagues escaped—inappropriate remarks directed at female faculty or a constant pressure to spend less time with their children, for example...
When a F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short article “Gretchen’s Forty Winks” came up on the search engine, the two settled on the name...
There's also the fact that, until recently, ramps were hard to get. Aside from their short window of availability (two to three weeks, max), a lot of markets simply didn't have them. Do a search for ramps on the Chowhound discussion boards, and over the course of a few years you'll go from its almost total obscurity to the veggie's showing up at Whole Foods. As Davina Baum, the managing editor at Chow, a leading site for adventurous home cooks, put it, "You always remember the first time you said, 'What are ramps...
...From Yunnan eastward through Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi, parts of the country have not had rain since October and approximately 24 million residents are short of water. In March, Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, toured Yunnan for three days, pledging governmental aid and advocating water-conservation efforts. Chances are that the arrival of summer showers will give the land respite in the next month. But until then, Vice Minister of Water Resources, Liu Ning, confirmed less than two weeks ago, about 30,000 sq. mi. (78,000 sq km) of soil are too dry to bear crops, which has resulted...
...consensus among locals is to splash with less water and focus on other celebratory activities. As a consequence, this year's festival, which runs from Tuesday through April 15, is likely to look much more authentic than it has in recent years. "Water-splashing is supposed to be a short, almost minor, part of the three-day holiday," says cultural anthropologist and Dai folklore expert Monica Cable. "It's been made central by tourists looking for spectacle...