Word: weeded
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...plus is, nowhere in your community can you find a pool of single people who are seeking something similar to what you're seeking. And it's a very [large] pool. The negative is, it takes an unbelievable amount of time and attention in order to weed through the whack jobs in that pool. And the time, the 85 emails - you have to have the energy to do it. That's the downside. Also, you have to be aware that one of the great things about Internet dating is, it's practice. So for many women who are first beginning...
...people has close business ties to neighboring Piedras Negras, a city three times the size of its U.S. neighbor. He has pressed for a variety of alternative approaches, including the use of sensors to detect illegal movement and the eradication of "Carrizo cane" - an invasive, nonnative, tall river weed that provides easy hiding places along the riverbanks...
...disease of the bronchial tubes of one lung. They were removed in an operation so drastic that his chest had to be opened from top to bottom, slashing his shoulder muscles so that he thought he might never be able to paint again. While convalescing, he painted The Trodden Weed, with his arm suspended in a sling from the ceiling. The boots that flatten the weed once belonged to Howard Pyle and were Betsy's Christmas gift to him in 1950. Wyeth wore them while taking long walks to regain his strength. He explained: "The painting came to signify...
...legal equivalent of a bad traffic ticket. Law enforcement officers, however, worry that citizens’ first impression may prove all too close to correct—that the “marijuana ticket” will prove impossible to enforce and is thus a de facto legalization of weed. In the short run, officers should try to enforce the law as best they can, despite the enforcement challenges that it presents; it is, after all, law. In the long run, however, citizens and officers alike should consider the real reasons that officers hesitate to enforce the law, and what...
Washington is about to get its first official waste watchdog. President-elect Barack Obama recently tapped Nancy Killefer to fill the newly created role of chief performance officer. Killefer, a senior director at management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co., will be in charge of combing through the federal budget to weed out unnecessary programs and streamline government efficiency...