a. A struggle or contest in which the participants attempt to wrestle with each other by clutching or gripping. b. A struggle for superiority or dominance. v. grap·pled, grap·pling, grap·ples v.tr. 1. To seize and hold with a grapple: grappled the prow of the ship. 2. To se...
But he remains steadfast in his right to use the N-word.“There’s people that strongly believe my use of the word, with just as much moral conviction, shouldn’t be considered wrong because of the direct way that a Black man had stated at first and a white man parroted it,” he ...
Seeing her daughter look almost like she did in life, calmed the mother and gave her spiritual comfort. It is small moments like these that make Wang's job worth it. Partly driven by China's aging population, there is a rapid growth in demand for death care services across the country. ...
Mansell has admitted that Kohl’s went too far in emphasizing its in-house brands, which generated 52% of sales last year, compared to about 30% in 2005. He is bringing that back down to 48%, by focusing on relatively fewer brands but really homing in on them more than other ...
"The NIMBY (not in my backyard) attitude, weak local government units capacities, and lack of alternatives to landfilling have aggravated the situation," he said. Metro Manila is now home to more than 12 million people. As with many other megacities in Asia, Plaza said waste collection and ...
Church Grapples with Its Future and Women Bishops; the Church of England This Week Meets to Decide Whether to Back Historic Plans That Would Pave the Way for Women Bishops in a Move That Threatens to Create a Yawning Chasm between Traditionalists and Liberals. Darren Devine Examines How the ...
That energy continues even when we learn that French's mother strongly disapproves of his sexuality. We see this in actions instead of words—she covers her couch in newspaper before he sits, crucifixes hang on the walls of her small apartment. However, he's not here to make amends. He...
From low-quality computer-written books flooding the market to potential copyright violations, publishing is the latest industry to feel the threat from rapid developments in artificial intelligence.
more common than Tench would prefer to admit. It was, in the tradition of Fincher’sZodiac, an epic and neurotic procedural that, in the vein of the director’sThe Social Network, understood the power of words, especially as Ford and Tench gradually fashioned an iconic term: “serial ...
“It’s easy for me to stand onstage and sing and relate to people,” she says. “I feel the beats in music. I know when to become powerful and when to quiet it down. That was the hardest part in acting--learning the words and letting them flow like I was singing.” ...