Word: voided
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ours before we were the land's"; Wyeth paints Young America (1950) showing a boy in the garb of a footloose youth riding an extravagant bicycle in all the vastness of America. As he often does, Wyeth actually painted the figures over a completed landscape, afterthoughts in a void...
...health impacts of this regulatory void go further. Factory farmers give their animals mountains of antibiotics to spur rapid growth, such that the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of America’s antibiotics are now used on animals, not humans (the USDA doesn’t even bother recording their use, so no exact figures exist...
...Zalathal went faster and faster. It seemed as though the staircase would never end. Felicity thought her breasts would spin off into the fiery void of their own accord. And then there was Frederick, only a few feet away, his pale, wan face upturned and shocked, his watery eyes bulging and mouth gaping like a trout, and still Zalathal did not stop. Felicity charged over her husband. She heard the triumphant crunch of bone, the satisfying curtailment of her husband’s prayer as Zalathal’s powerful hoofs crushed his throat...
...counterintuitive at the moment, given the parlous state of the U.S. economy. But it is precisely because tapped-out American consumers have stopped buying Chinese-made goods that this economic rebalancing act needs to proceed with haste. The country's factories need new customers. Chinese consumers can fill that void, by spending more and reducing their stratospherically high national household-savings rate, which stands at more than 25%, compared with a savings rate in the U.S. that hovers near zero. China needs to start creating new jobs by boosting its underdeveloped service sector, which contributes just 40% to overall...
...idea stemmed from a personal need that exposed a void in the market. While planning a friend’s 21st birthday party, Hirschfeld realized that he didn’t have the time or money to buy nice invitations. After teaming up with his sister Alexa H. Hirschfeld ’06, James launched Paperless Post...