Word: stabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stab at stimulus includes annual cash handouts to families with children of $3,350 per child, free high school education, the elimination of highway tolls and a four-year freeze on Japan's 5% consumption tax. A balanced budget is out of the question for now, but the DPJ says it can help pay for additional programs by cutting $97.8 billion in "wasteful" government outlays...
Though Columbia was ranked number 8 in U.S. News' college rankings, Columbia's Bwog takes a stab at Harvard by calling us "financially incompetent," even if we beat them again next year...
...corrections-technology industry - focusing on preventing and squashing unrest - has grown in recent years, offering such products as cell doors that swing in both directions to prevent barricades, as well as stab- and slash-resistant body armor for corrections officers. Many of these products will be showcased at the annual Mock Prison Riot trade show to be held next spring in West Virginia. Its slogan: "Where technology meets mayhem...
...never humor so raw or heart so bleeding. He sets up his audience to go for the gross, then tell them to feel deeply for the folks he's been making fun of. He wants it both ways, and gets neither. Many of his fans, without begrudging his stab at working outside his comfort zone, will beg him to please, please, go back and make Judd Apatow movies...
Writer Jason Kersten first told Williams' story in Rolling Stone magazine in 2005. Now he's returned to the subject for a book, The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter. Williams took a stab at making an honest living, but eventually returned to counterfeiting and was arrested again in 2007. He's currently serving a federal prison term scheduled to end in 2013. Kersten spoke with TIME about Williams' remarkable criminal career and the odd allure of duplicating dollars...