Word: stools
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...these days, the real China is making Manzano's prosperity as precarious as a two-legged stool. In a perfect example of globalization at work, ferocious competition from Chinese manufacturers is snatching away Manzano's customers--and its life. Over the past three years, about 200 Manzano companies have closed, and a worrisome number of the remaining 900 are struggling. The cheap labor isn't just in China. Sawmills have moved to Croatia, Poland and Romania, where an increasing amount of prefabrication is carried...
...people claim that Halloween is their favorite holiday. They think it’s about dressing up like sick sluts, getting blackout, and eating so much candy that their stool reflects all the hues of the Skittles rainbow. But that’s what every other day of the year is about. The true Halloween is about postponing the pleasure of eating your candy to count it for the purposes of a math project. It’s about a young bro named Cornelius who once broke his middle school’s record for UNICEF collections by solemnly refusing...
...commentary) pulled out of the theatre where I caught a screening of “War of the Worlds.” The only reason to save the films would be for an anthropology paper entitled, “Poop and Culture: Ethnographically Approximating the Root Causes of Loose Stool,” which has already been written several times by Roger Ebert anyway...
Scientists with a suggestion for a future mission book time with Team X and pay for it out of their own operations budget. At a lot of institutions, that would be a little like buying the stool that will be used at your own public dunking. But J.P.L.-ers don't see it that way. Team X even has an improbable name for the scientists who come before it: customers. "We hardly ever end up where the customer came in thinking we'd end up," says engineer and team member Tracy Leavens...
...soon, the Magic nerds were rocking, pulling more soul out of their banjos than it seemed possible for undersized string instruments to contain. Matt and Andrew were transfixed. Half an hour later, Erin abandoned her stool and introduced herself as a friend of the bass player—he was Erin’s husband’s cousin, and that was her husband, over there, and that girl spinning on the dance floor? That was the bass player’s other cousin. Soon, Erin was sitting down, telling us about her bachelorette party, and then about her wedding...