Word: stringings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...describing their marriage as short on love and long on intimidation. "He would beat me, threaten me, put a knife to my neck," says Jackson. "I was afraid if I left him he would kill me." Jackson wed the ex-con in 1989 and plunged into a string of profitable but cheapening enterprises, including launching a psychic hotline and posing for Playboy. "He controlled all my bank accounts," Jackson says. "I couldn't cash a check." She says she called it quits when Gordon insisted that she perform in a porno flick. So one morning as he showered, she dashed...
...dining services contract is only the latest in a string of bargaining successes for Manning. While Harvard has historically been rife with labor strife, Manning has, in the first round of new contracts since his arrival at Harvard, managed to ink deals with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and the police union without a strike. Both of those unions had proved contentious in negotiating their previous contracts
...little better than this on earth. I have had similar feelings about many of the pieces I was exposed to in Robert Levin's Core course, Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel." From Schubert's light Trout Quintet to Beethoven's brooding late string quartets, all nine pieces I was required to know have stayed with me and spurred me to look for other chamber pieces...
Witten didn't invent superstring theory, which posits that the basic building blocks of nature are not tiny particles but unimaginably small loops and snippets of what loosely resembles string--except that the string exists in a bizarre, 10-dimensional universe. The current version of the theory took shape in the late 1960s, when the tall, thin, shy, wispy-voiced scientist was still an undergraduate at Brandeis...
Apparently computer records are kept in strings of digits, and only two digits in the string are used to designate the year. Calculations are based on constantly going to a higher number, and when 99 goes to 00, the computer will think it has gone to a lower number. (Sure, the computer should know better, but let's face it, computers are sometimes dumb as dirt.) Magenta will start to run. "As an example," I was told, "bonds that pay more as the number of the year goes higher will pay less because the number will be lower...