Word: slivering
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...scope but empowering to each individual, marked not only by economic growth but also by a spread of knowledge and freedom and true community. That's a daunting task. But it shouldn't be much harder than figuring out how to etch more than 7 million transistors on a sliver of silicon...
...back on when I heard "Cut." My air conditioner those first weeks was a bright blue 60 tonner, the first of the many whose tonnage, idiosyncrasies and routes of their air hoses I would come to know and respect. And so there I was my first day, in a sliver of overgrown land between the warehouse and a meat packing plant from which an ominous stench poured forth. But the sky was clear and the sun was bright. I had arrived in Movie Land...at the very bottom, and I heaved a sigh of relief: no responsibilities, no pressure--just...
...late, reading their psyches has become less a genteel academic pastime than an extreme sport in which sneakermakers, brewers and car manufacturers scramble for market share. Politicians trolling for votes, churches seeking converts, military services recruiting soldiers, moviemakers looking for viewers and magazines for readers: hardly a sliver of society is exempt from the need to understand and, indeed, cater to this generation. Yet Gen X has proved irritatingly contrarian. "The soul of Gen X is amorphous, intangible, elusive," says Richard Thau, 32, who heads the civic group Third Millennium. "That's why I like the term X: fill...
...four days later, Harvard suffered a heartbreaking 12-6 loss to a good UMass team on April 16. Not only did the Crimson possibly ruin its final hope of making the tournament (there still remained a sliver of a chance), but it lost its leading scorer Ferrucci to a torn anterior cruciate ligament for the rest of the season...
Only then is there a sliver of hope of it making the 1997 NCAA's. Yale 5 Harvard...