Word: torrent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contradictory nation, a place of displaced memories. Outpacing time and history in a willful torrent of assumed progress, the American forgets that his country was founded as the New Jerusalem. Only when some isolated pocket of that dream manages to elude skeptic scoffing does the past reduce the present to tears and wonder...
Along this highway already flows a torrent of information, from stock and bond quotes for banks and brokerage houses, to telephone conversations, to sitcoms and first-run movies for networks and cable TV companies. Telesat's new Anik C3 will speed the flood along by strengthening Canadian telephone service, as well as by bringing addi tional pay television programming to cable operators and, through them, to the homes of cable TV subscribers throughout Canada. Meanwhile, SBS's satellite, SBS-3, will be targeted toward the U.S. market, offering long-distance direct-dial service to consumers at rates lower...
SUBMITTING TO A medical examination by a doctor whose practices have been repeatedly challenged seems an action guaranteed to make a woman nervous. Nor is this an unreasonable reaction to the torrent of publicity. Women whose concerns are obstetric--who are primarily worried about how they will have their babies--now have several options which have been instituted in response to the complaint, notably the opportunity to be served by a BWH nurse-midwife. But for the woman with different and sometimes more complicated medical concerns, help does not appear to be on the way. Rather than let such discomfort...
...serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...
...period, the stock exchange has spent some $70 million on eleven separate electronic systems to relay orders to trading posts, record sales and provide swift and complete information to brokers on how the market is moving. That costly investment paid some blue-chip dividends last week. The record-breaking torrent of trading was handled with ease. Even at the peak of the action on the 138 million-share day, the electronic tapes that list every single trade were a mere 18 minutes behind. It was all a bully good show. ? By Charles Alexander. Reported by Sue Raffety and Frederick...