Word: slewed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Writers from the nation’s top three newsmagazines—Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News & World Report—and a slew of smaller periodicals—including the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, and the Chronicle of Higher Education—also staked out the scene...
...year ago. But some of the panelists were heartened by what they see as genuine efforts by governments across the Continent to tackle some persistent problems, including a lack of labor mobility and unsustainable health-care and pension systems. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schrder has introduced a slew of new measures designed to create jobs, including unpopular cutbacks in unemployment benefits. In France, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin has triggered protests by changing the law to allow employees to work more than 35 hours a week and has begun revamping the system of state-funded medical benefits...
...caller reported a loss of $1,350 that occurred from an apartment rental scam on 20 Prescott Street. This report of larceny is just one in a slew of others made about rental scams in that location...
Junior tri-captain Julie Chu led the way with a customary two-way effort, scoring two goals and adding an assist while anchoring the Harvard defense and special teams from the point. Along the way, Chu put the finishing touches on the squad’s slew of four goals in the second period. Clarkson netminder Kira McDonald turned away the initial offering from senior defenseman Ashley Banfield, but Chu swept in, kicked the rebound to herself and beat McDonald high for the insurance tally...
Posner considers a slew of world-ending scenarios with REM-style enthusiasm. He reports one scientist’s estimate that there’s a 1 in 100,000 chance of an asteroid smashing earth in any given year and killing a billion people. Alternatively, Posner speculates, “superintelligent robots” might turn on their human creators and “kill us, put us in zoos, or enslave...