Word: torridity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boheme" is set in the Quartier Latin of nineteenth-century Paris. Mimi, a sweet soul doomed to an untimely death, falls in love at first sight with her neighbor Rodolfo, member of a lovable band of starving artists. Their love affair, made torrid by Rodolfo's jealousy, is mirrored by a no less tumultuous relationship between Marcello the painter and the fiercely independent Musetta...
Even Alan Greenspan, the inflation-stalking chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, concedes that the six interest-rate hikes he engineered last year have been exacting a price on the economy. "It's clear that the very torrid rate of increase in economic growth which we experienced through the latter part of 1994 is starting to slow down,'' Greenspan told Congress last week. But he left little doubt that the nation's 5.4% unemployment rate, among other signs of continuing strength, was putting pressure on him to raise interest rates further-probably as early as this week. Greenspan's goal...
Since being named president in March 1991, Rudenstine has spent more than three years being forced into all manner of uncomfortable positions. He has been forced to handle difficulty diversity issues. He has struggled to keep up with a torrid fundraising pace. And he has been forced to make more high-profile appointments than the typical new president...
...their plastic surgery. ("Was it painful?" "No, darling, it was Silverman.") A women's book club meets every week to discuss the same novel, The Bridges of Madison County. The group's leader has restyled her hair and wardrobe to look like Francesca, the farm wife who has a torrid affair in the book with a magazine photographer. The others are just as far gone. "You know, I've searched through over a hundred copies of National Geographic, and I cannot find a Robert Kincaid photograph for the life of me," says one. "Why don't they give him credit...
...rust. Something stranger is happening, though: the plant has been sold to the Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild it to help satisfy China's insatiable industrial appetite. Thought to have expanded at a torrid rate of 13% in 1993, China's economy has been the fastest growing in the world for two years...