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...take a beating during the long grind ahead. But ex-New York Mets general manager Steve Phillips says, "Pitchers complain about it too." Phillips thinks spring training is excessive for the position players, but insists the pitchers need the six weeks. But look at 1995. That year the players' strike was resolved in the spring, and everyone - pitchers and position players alike - got just three weeks to prepare. Lo and behold, no one's arm melted...
...their seats and be offended, to enjoy the comic material that would be edited from primetime and bleeped out on basic cable. Even matinees (which boast a median age of around 63) contain audiences filled with senior citizens trying to maintain straight faces while Travierso and Ingber strike some obscenely sexual poses I hope I never see from actual siblings...
...brings out menus from some of these dinners, filled with names that strike sharp pangs of envy into other oenophiles’ hearts: mature Château Montrose, Château Mouton Rothschild (each bottle now worth more than $1,000), and Château d’Yquem (which Thomas Jefferson liked so much that he bought 250 bottles for himself, plus a few more for George Washington). And these were only a part of a single dinner. Membership is limited to 14 because there are exactly 14 tasting portions in an ordinary bottle of wine...
...then we would have continued. But why should we try to be nice when we are paid nothing?" Kumar, the father of a five-year-old boy, says he makes a few thousand rupees a month, the equivalent of about $100. He says the drivers can't go on strike or their children will go hungry. In any case, says Kumar, it's only a small minority of rickshaw drivers, especially ones who service the train and bus stations, "who give us a bad image. They just grab people and force them into their auto. There is no please...
...fight back with this guide to vigilante justice. 1) Publicly allege that Adams has returned to its elitist roots and discriminates against whatever race you happen to be. 2) Revenge and prosper: empty the toilet paper roll dispenser, conveniently located on your way out. 3) Go to breakfast. Strike the gong. Escape as sleep-addled Adamsians struggle to apprehend you. 4) Go to lunch. Strike the gong. Accuse a nearby resident. 5) Switch the placards in the Adams tunnels, forever stranding residents in the labyrinth under Plympton Street. 6) Threaten to call a dean if you?...