Word: sours
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...system--bitterness which emerges in serious personal questioning, in hurt pride, in a sense of the uselessness of daily routine. "When you're jobless," Hesford says, "the rigamarole you have to go through for your thesis after it's finished and the whole Commencement thing seem a little sour. You start thinking, 'What's the diploma worth...
...catch an audience unawares, how to embellish and tantalize. A good example of Lombardo's expeditious, off-angle characterization is his introduction of a character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window...
...revised figures showing a 5.8% rise during the April-June quarter in productivity in private non-farm sector jobs, which is vital to corporate profits and has been slipping for most of the past two years. Still, not all the signs are sweet, and in fact they are turning sour in one key area: the cost of the money that consumers and companies need to buy the goods and finance the building needed to create jobs and profits...
...ascendant throughout the world, despite such triumphs as Sputnik. Blacks were winning their civil rights. The American genius for production was turning out technologically dazzling goods and mountainous surpluses of food. The campuses were so complacently quiet that people spoke of the Silent Generation. That age turned sour around the end of 1963, with the assassination of John Kennedy and the deepening involvement in Viet Nam. After that, it became harder to cheer a society divided by riots, split by generations, alarmed by drugs and afraid to walk city streets at night...
...case, S.D.S.'s main business -high-technology Government contracts-went sour shortly after Xerox took over the company. S.D.S. never captured more than 1% of the mainframe computer business, and recently it has been losing $44 million a year. A Xerox study concluded that it would not be profitable until 1980, and the company decided that it could not wait that long. It can rent computers for the "office of the future" system more cheaply than making them. Also the recession is cutting into profits from Xerox's basic business (copiers). A Xerox statement last week even predicted...