... that it weeded out all the people who didn't truly love software development. Once the incentive to become an overnight dot-com genius programmer millionaire was gone, computer science enrollment suddenly dropped precipitously at colleges across the country. The only people left applying for programming jobs were the true freaks and geeks who, y'know, loved this stuff. The kind of people I had ...
...who continues to read and comment on the stories I write. ‘Cause cake, while still delicious, just isn’t the same without a little icing. ( On the surface, Laura Roslin has nothing to recommend her for the position to which she’s been precipitously elevated, and yet Bill’s gradually beginning to realize that there is much more to this woman than lesson plans and a great pair of legs. )
... companies will fall for the full year. Barnes & Noble (which owns B. Dalton's, Scribner's, Bookstop, and Doubleday Books) is the largest bookstore chain in America, but has seen revenues fall precipitously and has flirted with a loss for the year. Borders (which owns Brentano's and Waldenbooks) is the second-largest chain and it, too, is struggling. Third-largest chain Books-A-Million and smaller...
... buttercrunch Brun brods Pistachio meringues Rum balls and today's on-the-spot spur-of-the-moment what-deeds-of-derring-do-will-they-dare-to-do-next creation, Lemon oatmeal cookies. My usefulness went precipitously downhill all day, until at the end my functions were: 1) say entertaining things to Mom while she did the icing swirls, and 2) blink blearily in weary dizziness. Had an awesome time ...
...he tasted, coarse and bitter upon his tongue, roughened as though a gallon of sand. It was precipitouslyfoolish, considering that merely seconds ago he was praising that Jeff and Fiona could dare to coexist ...two were awake or asleep or whatever, but do you want me to take her?” Fiona glancedprecipitously upon Eddie, both of their mouths dropping in that very same dignified instant, yet it was ...
... girls, but the ratio is slipping. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japanalone. And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per millilitre of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years. (Hamsters produce nearly three times as much, at 160 ...
So this thesis thing is hard. Not the writing on it - that's easy. But the number of pages I can write a day before my wrists start hurting is declining precipitously. I'm not liking this. It's also delaying the Halloween recap I owe people. Yes, I'm still working on it. Today's word of the day, which I nabbed from Foreign Policy's Passport : Hopejacking : n . The cynical use of ...
... IMF-led "Washington Consensus" (more aptly named by Naomi Klein as the "Shock Doctrine"), with devastating and deadly results. (As in Yeltsin's Russia, for example, where life expectancy dropped precipitously and millions of people died premature deaths from poverty, illness, and despair.) According to the cult, not only were markets to be freed from the constraints placed on them after the ...
... Global Crash of '08. Nobody's quite calling it that yet, but what else could it be? All over the world yesterday stocks plummeted; the Russian and Brazilian stock indexes went down so precipitously -- 19% and 13% -- that exchanges in both countries were closed for parts of the day; the Indonesian index tumbled an unprecedented 10%; the Paris bourse , 9%; the London FTSE 100, a historic 8%; ...
Our shippingcharges are not high. The cost of UPS, Fedex, and the US Postal Service have all risen precipitously in the past year or so. When you have a UPS daily pickup at your house, you pay certainly weekly charges. The more you ship, the less they charge you. But for a "little guy" like us, we're spending the most. And still, we only charge $10 per domestic package, $15 to Canada and $30 ...
