Word: wrings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some alumni take the initiative and contribute without even being asked. But, in order to wring money out of the rest, the University tuned up its complex, aggressive fundraising machine...
...manse with an unattended iron, and the typical policy covers you. But if heavy rain overwhelms a storm sewer that backs up into your home or business and destroys all, well, sorry. Claims adjusters are now delivering that message to thousands of people, including the Kadlecs, trying to wring out Hurricane Floyd from their carpets...
...Wring me out!" cried one normally stone-faced critic at the Cannes Film Festival after seeing this vivacious screwball melodrama, which won Almodovar the Best Director prize. Hot tears are an apt response: the two most innocent characters die; the others grieve and carry on womanfully. At the center of the film is Manuela (Cecilia Roth, in a heroically clenched performance), who goes to Barcelona looking for her ex-husband and ends up mothering half a dozen lost souls. She is Mother Courage, Mother Teresa and your mom on her very best day. But All About My Mother also gives...
...voice-mail and e-mail inboxes, waiting for our turn to be answered. And our frustration with this must be unhealthy, as we clench our fists when the driver in front of us waits five seconds before moving at a newly green traffic light, or as we wring our hands when someone (heaven forbid) has checked their inbox but has not responded to our messages. We have become so paranoid about physical space that we screen calls. We finger-stalk. We struggle to remember password after password, half-recognizing that our information--our data, our ideas--could suddenly vanish...
...been nothing but bust. The new economy, with its focus on cost cutting and price competition, has tamed inflation to the point that each year Mobil and Union Camp faced progressively lower real prices for their products. Both companies had done pretty much everything they could to wring out costs, but it still wasn't enough...