Catwalk" (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers) combines author Deborah Gregory's upbeat urban voice with the appeal of reality TV shows like "Project Runway" and "America's Next Top Model" for a fresh, fierce, fashion-forward read. Her second book in the "Catwalk" series will be released in fall 2009. In the glossary, readers will find definitions for words like "shopportunity," "feline fatale," "purrilicious" and more. Gregory is the author of the widely successful teen prep culture phenomenon, "The Cheetah Girls," winner of Black Board Children's Book of the Year Award. This 16-book series was adopted by the Disney Channel as an original movie, "The Cheetah Girls," that debuted in 2003. "Cheetah Girls 2," the sequel, premiered in August 2006. Gregory served as a co-producer of th...
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Dyslexia affects many children by making it impossible for them to decipher letters, words and numbers appropriately. There are many definitions of dyslexia but no official consensus has been reached. While dyslexia affects a large number of people, the researchers are unable to agree on the number of individuals or percentage of the population because in large part of researchers' inability to agree on what dyslexia actually is. The most frequently stated estimate is 5 percent to 10 percent of a given population -- although there have been no studies to indicate an accurate percentage.
For most of history, we had undebatable definitions of words such as "bailout" and "bankruptcy." We understood the former as an undeserved public grant, and the latter as an inability to pay existing bills. Whatever your particular beliefs about these concepts, their meanings were at least agreed upon. Sadly, that's not the case during a deficit crisis that is seeing language redefined on ideological terms.
... this project, we are adding definitions for words agency and must; and we are deleting the definitio...
If we followed only first definitions, a "prick" would be just a "shallow hole made by a pointed instrument," a "lie" would be just a British "lay" and an "asshole" would be just an "anus." And with the election just a month away, we're gonna need as many definitions for those words as we can find. Still up on iTunes is their SpinVox Punctuation Playlist, celebrating NPD with what they call punctuation-related songs: "Comma Chameleon" ("Karma Chameleon," Culture Club), "Run-on With the Devil" ("Running With the Devil," Van Halen), "London Colon" ("London Calling," the Clash), etc.
In Reading the OED, nonfiction writer [Ammon Shea] recounts his efforts to conquer perhaps the most challenging of all published word mazes. Even while residing on a bookshelf, the Oxford English Dictionary has a formidable presence. Consisting of 20 volumes, spanning 21,730 pages, it weighs 137 pounds. "The listings for S alone take up four volumes and over 3,000 pages. "Set," the word with the most definitions, goes on for 60,000 words, the length of an average novel, and in so doing explores every possible shade of meaning. "Set" is listed as a noun (48 senses), a verb (155 senses), an adjective (nine senses), and a conjunction (one sense). Each of these main senses has a multitude of subsenses, making this one word, consisting of just three letters, almost a language unto itself. Sh...
Compared with these norms, the Romanian film Police, Adjective, directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, might be considered an anti-police procedural. There are no chases, no guns, and the only music is a banal pop song whose lyrics one of the characters subjects to a rhetorical analysis. The crime involved is minor; I won't reveal whether it's solved or not. The film's key scene is set in the office of a police captain (Vlad Ivanov, of 4 Months, 3 Weeh and 2 Days), where three characters examine a dictionary for the definitions of the words "conscience," "law" and "police." It's all done in one shot, held for at least five minutes.
Definitions for some key words and phrases in the ongoing financial crisis: Basis point: One one-hundreth of one percentage point. Changes in interest rates are measured in basis points. If the Federal Reserve's target rate was 2 percent and it was cut by 50 basis points, the new rate would be 1.5 percent.
Iced tea and flavored water will be added, but seltzer, fur coats and Milky Way bars will be deleted from the list of what's covered by New Jersey's 6 percent sales tax next month when a new law designed to improve tax collections in the Internet age takes effect. Consumers may or may not notice the changes, but some store owners are scrambling to prepare for the new law, which adopted uniform definitions of common words and phrases such as "soft drinks," "candy" and "clothing.
In this final rule, OSHA is modifying its Standard (HCS) to conform to the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). OSHA has determined that the modifications will significantly reduce costs and burdens while also improving the quality and consistency of information provided to employers and employees regarding chemical hazards and associated protective measures. Consistent with the requirements of Executive Order 13563, which calls for assessment and, where appropriate, modification and improvement of existing rules, the Agency has concluded this improved information will enhance the effectiveness of the HCS in ensuring that employees are apprised of the chemical hazards to which they may be exposed, and in redu...
... requirements for use of standardized signal words, pictograms, hazard statements, and precautionary ... data sheets; and related revisions to definitions of terms used in the standard, and requirements fo...
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