Vocabulary: Combination Words (page 2)

In this holiday-shortened week, Wall Street's debate will likely continue on whether the recent tailwind that had been pushing stocks up will wither in the summer heat.

She's wearing a polka dot dress. Her face is careworn.

My personal opinion is that the prosecutor hornswoggled the court and the jury with this hogwash.

The last in the set is the Chasse-neige (“Snowplough”), which can be viewed as the greatest of Studies. It is unique in its mood of desolation - it has been poetically described as snow-flakes gradually covering and burying the whole world. A study of nature at her most merciless. But for those who look upon Liszt as a mountebank, as someone who writes “for effect”, I would recommend a glance at the end of the B minor Sonata and B minor Ballade.

Lindows is an operating system for Microsoft haters and cheapskates. Its flaws make Windows seem like a genuine bargain.

It's not that a cybercriminal world of conspiratorial smugglers, scofflaws, crooked banks and tax evaders is impossible. Such countries already exist. It's just that they're not anyone's idea of high-tech paradise. They are places like Bulgaria.

Chances are, you're a software scofflaw.

Summer is over and a plague of UNIX programmers is upon us. College kids, wet behind the ears; greenhorns, rubes.

The cornball love story between the spoiled Anakin Skywalker (Christensen) and the plastic young senator of the Republic Padme Amidala (Portman), takes center stage.

Kheifetz provided Elizabeth Zarubin with a rundown on all the members of Robert Oppenheimer's family.

There's one special-effects scene in “Attack of the Clones” that qualifies as fun: A light-saber duel between Dooku and that little whippersnapper Yoda, who's about one-sixth his size.

A conservative estimate of the number of people who would die during a period of five years after only _half_ of the electronic infrastructure in the United States had collapsed is 30 million people. This is part of unclassified disaster planning that surfaced because of the Y2K scare, and it has been published widely by scaremongers that a decimation, in the technical meaning of 10% loss, of the population is considered a tolerable loss.

So many sites, so little time... Why pussyfoot around with window dressing? Take BIG bytes out of the net with Lynx.

In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith worked for the Ministry of Truth, excising from the public record the names of anyone who ran afoul of Big Brother. In 1999, Smith seems to be working at Infoseek, expunging any mention of former executive Patrick Naughton from the company's Web sites.

Not long after the FBI arrested Naughton on September 16 for allegedly planning a sexual encounter with a minor, Infoseek stated that Naughton no longer worked at the company. Infoseek then went to work to make it seem as though Naughton had never worked at the company.

Greenhalgh acknowledged that Naughton's bio and the release announcing his appointment were removed, but declined to comment on the other revisions. Perhaps sensing that news of the whitewash might prove more embarrassing than the original problem, Infoseek went back within 24 hours and reinserted Naughton's name in releases that had mentioned him.

Although they are still supported, backslashes are never needed for contiunation lines. They are a throwback to older versions of Python that didn't support the open-pairs rule.

The upshot was that I wrote a little Windows program to show some of the ideas involved.

In March of this year, they charged in a letter published in Microwave News that these attempts were met with stonewalling and foot-dragging.

“... My mom's such a bleeding heart... she's vocal about gay rights and all that.”

People often ask why “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing. The English words come from separate Latin words: inflammare and the rarer flammare, which both meant “to set on fire”. Latin had two prefixes in-, one of which meant “not”; the other, meaning “in”, “into”, or “upon”, was the one used in inflammare. “Inflammable” dates in English from 1605. “Flammable” is first attested in an 1813 translation from Latin It was rare until the 1920s when the U.S. National Fire Protection Association adopted “flammable” because of concern that the “in-” in “inflammable” might be misconstrued as a negative prefix. Underwriters and others interested in fire safety followed suit.

The story he tells is about Buttercup, a beautiful princess (Robin Wright) who scornfully orders around a farm boy (Cary Elwes) until the day when she realizes, thunderstruck, that she loves him. She wants to live happily ever after with him, but then evil forces intervene, and she is kidnapped and taken far away across the lost lands...

The Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria were outfitted in the minor port of Palos. Columbus was aided in recruiting a crew by two brothers — Martin Alonzo Pinzon, who received command of the Pinta, and his younger brother Vicente Yanez Pinzon, who commanded the Nina. They left Palos on Aug. 3, 1492, rerigged the Nina in the Canaries, and sailed to the west. A landfall was made on the morning of Oct. 12, 1492, at an island in the Bahamas, which Columbus named San Salvador.