Word: spun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...religious proponents, of course, don't consider themselves anti-gay. Nor do the black pastors see any parallels to the church's opposition to interracial marriage 30 years ago. Instead, victory is spun by organizers as mark of "progressive thinking" that respects the "boundaries that need to be retained for the continuation of civilization as we know...
...already worked with them, and their word was their bond." Of Howard, she adds, "I like the grown Opie." She also liked Carrey, who had asked Geisel to meet with him after the book went up for auction. Instead of shaking her hand when they met, he spun her around, held her close and made a Grinch face. She was sold. "I grew up with it," says Carrey. "In a very simple tale, Seuss tells you a lot about human behavior; he tells you a lot about prejudice, and that no one is unreachable." While Carrey set about inhabiting...
...hadn't seen those exact moves in my mind every time I heard that music before. Sometimes the movements appeared amateur, like someone thrashing around in his room with windows and doors shut against prying eyes. But there is no denying their skill, as they leapt and spun across the stage. The choreography was a study in patterns, almost mathematical in its precision. Morris would take an initial move and repeat it several times over with tiny variations, like a fugue of motion...
...their choices. Essentially, the plan (dubbed "Project Grand Slam") would be a financial quarantining of its ailing long-distance operation, which would get its own tracking stock and operate as a separate retail arm, according to reports. AT&T's wireless unit and cable television operation would each be spun off as an independent company over the next 12 to 24 months. The company's biggest and most profitable unit, the corporate-minded Business Services department, would become the new AT&T, and coordinate brand-licensing and commercial agreements with the other three...
...This would of course be AT&T's third go-round with de-glomeration - the government took the hammer to them in 1984, and the company spun off Lucent and shed NCR in 1996. (And the track record is a bit frightening: Lucent has gone from $79 to $22 inside of a year, issued three - three! - profit warnings and this weekend fired its CEO.) The idea is to keep the company nimble in a shifting-sands technological landscape by letting each division act on its own, pursuing its own innovations, deals and profitability...