Search Details

Word: tracks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...also an ideology that you'd think, given the track record of trusted financial institutions, people would be a little wary of crowing in public nowadays. But ratings are up. As the rest of the country stews over the mismanagement of insurers and banks, there's still a small, demographically appealing niche for talking heads fulminating against the "demonization" of business and being in favor of laissez-faire government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CNBC Under Fire: Sticking Up for the Big Guy? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...probably not out of the question.  For that matter, he would probably also take over the University of Texas at Austin and name the university after himself.  But one things certain: this man won't need any stimulus for his endowment.  (Cue laugh track...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...keep all of the pieces together. She is both resolute and self-sustaining; unabashedly sexual, though her principles of sexuality are often divorced from their praxis. One day she’s an Independent Woman, and the next she wants to take the backseat and Upgrade U.On the track “Upgrade U,” Mrs. Jay-Z suggests that in spite of her independence, she is partial to relationships that are secure and run, “by the man, but the women keep the tempo.” “It’s very...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Many Arms of America's First Lady | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Although Sinn Fein is firmly wedded to the political process, some Republicans still accept the old twin-track approach of combining the bullet and the ballot. "I recognize the Irish people have an absolute right to take up arms against British rule," says Richard Walsh, spokesman for one such party, Republican Sinn Fein. Walsh says support for the dissidents is growing. "It's inevitable that more people are becoming disillusioned with the Provisionals. They've been lying to their own people for decades now. The traditional base [is] deserting them ever since they decided to recognize the British state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Northern Ireland's Latest Killing Spree | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...wants to know how well it can track Chinese submarines moving in and out of their new and growing base off Hainan. And the Chinese want to prevent the U.S. from gathering such intelligence. Both sides claim legal cover for their actions, which suggests that similar showdowns will occur in the future. But such events, far from home and with few if any independent eyewitnesses, can quickly escalate into more serious confrontations - as in the case of the Gulf of Tonkin "attack" by North Vietnamese patrol boats against a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers that President Lyndon B. Johnson used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sea Spat Between the U.S. and China | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | Next