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29 Jan 2013, 7:58 am
Lest anyone challenge this sports-mad Kat on this point, consider the meteoric rise of Colin Kaepernick here and "Kaepernicking". [read post]
20 Jun 2021, 9:00 pm
”Lumber’s meteoric price rise has reached a point where it’s now clearly overvalued, as the amount of wood available for production in North America is not as scarce as you may think. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 2:19 pm
President there is a meteor heading to earth which will destroy all life. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 10:44 am
However, with the meteoric rise of these modern “taxis”, there are more rideshare drivers on our roads than ever before. [read post]
13 Dec 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
As applied to my hypothetical of a missile or meteor, the main options are: (1) violate Merryman and Printz by unilaterally suspending habeas and commandeering state and local officials; or (2) do only what little you can with the authorities you constitutionally command, even though you know they are insufficient to restore law and order, thus likely leading to the permanent end of constitutional government. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 5:53 am by Bridget Crawford
Over here at Letters of Note is a reprint of Scottish poet Robert Burns's 1791 reply a critic: Dear Sir:Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy… [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 9:08 pm by Transplanted Lawyer
Typically caused by an airplane, rockets and meteors can cause them too. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 8:46 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
Typically, the term is limited to unstoppable and unexpected physical and/or natural forces, such as lightning, earthquakes, meteors, sudden death or illness, or other such events. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 1:54 pm by David Lat
The winner, with almost 50 percent of the vote, was Pat Robertson ‘55 — who once warned that a “Gay Days” event at Disney World could result in God hitting Orlando with “earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 4:47 pm
**I'm taking a much deserved vacation to rural Arizona so I can check out this weekend's Perseid meteor shower. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 9:40 pm
Jack Readers may recall the meteoric rise to fame and subsequent tragic death of Paul the octopus, the much-vaunted predictor of the outcome World Cup football matches (you can read his obituary here). [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 1:05 pm
In the over $30 million lawsuit, Fusari claims that the Grammy award winning Gaga forced him out of her career while continuing her meteoric rise to record breaking success. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 11:05 pm
Here is the abstract:The concept of closure, almost unknown two decades ago, has had a meteoric rise. [read post]
24 May 2018, 1:38 pm by Dan Goodin
Now, according to Bloomberg News, the US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into whether price manipulations have contributed to the meteoric rises and crushing falls. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 8:16 pm by Athena Boyer
  Tracer had a .13 blood alcohol level, however, argued that it was a meteor that caused the accident and not his blood alcohol level. [read post]
16 May 2010, 11:32 am by Big Tent Democrat
But I was struck by the silly reaction of Howard Fineman (admittedly an employee of Meacham's): "His rise was meteoric and nothing is easy," says Howard Fineman, Newsweek? [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 5:15 am by Gerry Riskin
He was the managing partner of a prominent UK firm that saw a meteoric rise in revenues and prosperity under his stewardship. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 6:28 am by Michael Froomkin
Houston’s meteoric career made her part of what Joseph Nye has called American “soft power. [read post]
6 May 2009, 4:00 am
Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty. [read post]