Word: stack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the Head of the Charles behind them, the Harvard heavyweights and lightweights have an idea of where they stack up against top-notch competition and can draw on this experience as they continue training and competing with the spring season in sight...
...does America's sexiest statesman stack up? At No. 15, Obama is nowhere near as hot as Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the world's No. 1 hottest leader. And he just barely clocked in as sexier than Russian heartthrob Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who failed to break into the top 10 despite many, many pleas for attention. But supporters of a peaceful, nuclear-free future take heart: North Korea's Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, came in dead last, at a homely No. 172. (See TIME's photo-essay "Vladimir Putin: Action Figure...
Progress also has a plan to sell synthetic gypsum, a by-product of its newly installed pollution-reducing stack scrubbers, to a plant that was scheduled to be built this year by wallboard maker CertainTeed. Gypsum is a critical component of wallboard, which is a critical component of housing construction. You know where that story goes. Because construction has collapsed, CertainTeed has postponed the wallboard plant until...
...cylinders.”And despite losing stud cornerback Andrew Berry ’09 to graduation, the Crimson believes the combination of last year’s Ivy Rookie of the Year Matthew Hanson, fifth-year senior Ryan Barnes, senior Derrick Barker, and junior Collin Zych should stack up against the league’s top receivers.“We have a really talented secondary, so if we can stop the run and force [opponents] to throw the ball, I’m really confident,” says senior defensive end Ryan Burkhead.But above all, this year?...
...years back, the Taliban commander thought his personal war with the Americans was over when he surrendered his Toyota Land Cruiser, a stack of rocket-propelled grenades and his personal weapons to the police chief in Kandahar. Mullah A, who prefers not to be identified, was exhausted. In late 2001, when U.S.-backed forces were pushing into northern Afghanistan, the commander saw most of his men wiped out by heavy American bombardment. He was one of the few survivors, and he fled south, back home to Kandahar, convinced that his fighting days had come...