Prediction: Falcons will be 1-15 Jun 29, 2008
Not at the nadir of Marion Campbell s second tour (3-13 in 1989). Not in June Jones farewell (3-13 in 1996). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Nevada governor's messy divorce is a gossip jackpot Jun 10, 2008
"You'd like to think," blogged Jon Ralston, a Las Vegas Sun political columnist, "this is the nadir.". On Monday, the couple's lawyers announced the Gibbonses would pause their court battle and try to negotiate. (Los Angeles Times)
Fatal blast rocks Gaza residence Jun 1, 2008
Witnesses said the house belonged to Nadir Abu Shaaban, a member of the Hamas movement which has ruled Gaza for nearly a year. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. (Aljazeera.Net)
Sir Alan Sugar's Apprentice fires imagination May 30, 2008
This reached a nadir during series three. First came tabloid stories about a sex tape involving one of the candidates, Naomi Lay, that was supposedly about to surface on the internet. (Telegraph.co.uk)
NHS records project is thrown into confusion May 30, 2008
The nadir was Libra, the magistrates' courts scheme which ended up costing 390m, three times its original budget, and was described by the Public Accounts Committee as "one of the worst private finance initiative deals that we have seen". The public sector, and the taxpayer, thought the IT industry was over-selling its capabilities with dollar signs in its eyes. (Independent)
Edward steps out of the Rogers shadow May 24, 2008
You can't swing a co-axial cable on Bay Street these days without hitting someone who would rather see Ted's second-in-command Nadir Mohamed take over, backed by impressive growth in the wireless division that has made Rogers a leader in that field ... We've got other good internal candidates that Edward and Melinda know about: Nadir, and [chief financial officer] Bill Linton and there are others ... At the Rogers annual meeting in April, Ted commanded the spotlight in a shiny blue suit... (Globe and Mail)
Could Common Pain Killers Have A Role In Cancer Prevention? May 21, 2008
"We know the drug is effective to reduce the incidence and recurrence of adenoma," said Nadir Arber, MD, head of the Integrated Cancer Prevention Center at Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel. "However, advances are needed to either use the drug in lower doses or develop combination therapy that can produce the same effect without the adverse side effects.". (Science Daily)
Bush weighs down McCain May 17, 2008
As dearly as McCain would love to put distance between himself and a president whose approval ratings have gone lower than Richard M. Nixon's at his nadir, he can't possibly abandon the core GOP principles that won Bush two terms in office -- not least because McCain personally shares most of them and has been backing them in the Senate for decades. That puts him in a very tight spot. (Los Angeles Times)
Abbott to Present Data on Novel Cancer Treatments at American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting May 16, 2008
Typically, platelet nadir occurred on days three to five with recovery during continued dosing. Tumor regression was observed in six patients, with three patients showing more than 50 percent tumor shrinkage. (PR Newswire)
Barmes' venison fall tops odd injury list Apr 23, 2008
328 and stroked 3,010 hits over the course of 18 big-league seasons, reached the nadir of his athletic career when he slipped while putting on cowboy boots, falling on a couch and wrenching his back. Boggs would later make up for this colossal country-western faux pas by riding a horse around Yankee Stadium after winning the 1996 World Series. (MLB.com -- Colorado Rockies)
Heart Surgery Results Good in Low-Volume Hospitals Apr 23, 2008
In contrast, at low-volume hospitals (defined as less than 250 procedures per year), the proportion of cases dropped from 20 percent to a nadir of 11 percent, and then rose to 25 percent. The number of high-volume centers rose from 17. (MEDLINEplus)
Gulf oil exporters struggle to find profitable investments Apr 22, 2008
Aside from political scrutiny, many funds have also taken some losses from their investments and are treading carefully until they get a better idea of whether the credit crisis has hit its nadir. Shares in Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have lost about 20 percent since Kuwait's sovereign fund and the Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, both agreed in January to invest a total of at least $5 billion in the banks. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Another ex-Clintonite throws support to Obama Apr 19, 2008
"I thought it represented the nadir of mean-spirited, negative politics," he told the magazine. FOON RHEE. (Boston Globe)
Lindgren may enter House race Apr 17, 2008
The sagging mortgage crisis, he says, has not met its nadir. Declines in consumer spending will affect state aid in years to come. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Roses n’ Razzies (April 11) Apr 11, 2008
You can t really do worse than what we saw this season: a winless conference record that was the nadir of a 17-year record with 16 losing seasons. True, Robinson had only two seasons at Brown, an Ivy League college that went 19-10 in his second year. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Silicon Valley start-ups feeling U.S. economic crunch Apr 9, 2008
That is down from 31 in the fourth quarter of last year, and is now at roughly the same level as the nadir of the dotcom bust. There was a sharp falloff in the acquisition of start-up companies by major corporations. (International Herald Tribune)
UMass's Milligan has deep-rooted Garden ties Apr 1, 2008
On Valentine's Day, the season hit its nadir as UMass dropped a game at home to Fordham. Hopes for the NCAA Tournament all but vanished. (Boston Globe)
BARACLUDE data show low resistance over 5 years in nucleoside-naive hepatitis B patients Mar 25, 2008
1 Virologic breakthrough is defined as a greater than or equal to 1 log increase in HBV DNA from nadir, as measured by the polymerase chain reaction or PCR assay. 2 Undetectable viral load is defined as HBV DNA levels less than 300 copies/mL, as measured by PCR assay. (EurekAlert!)
Opportunities point to bargain basement Mar 24, 2008
However, there was a feeling among market professionals that the events of last week, in particular the demise of one of Wall Streets most vulnerable banks, had somehow marked the nadir of the credit crisis. It was the cathartic moment that many had been waiting for and a sign that global equity markets had troughed. (FT.com -- Markets)
Is Our Happiness Preordained? Mar 21, 2008
Across the world, people in their 40s generally claim to be less happy than those who are younger or older, and the global happiness nadir appears to hit somewhere around 44. What happens at 44. (Time.com)
Newsweek: What investors need to do now Mar 20, 2008
Today's share prices might not represent the nadir, but they're likely to look very good by 2018 or 2025. Jigger your other investments. (MSNBC -- Business)
Nader Announces VP Pick Feb 29, 2008
I love you as much as you hate Nader, er Nadir. Posted by to Dan Stackhouse. (New York Times)
The creation of the Prozac myth Feb 27, 2008
Things reached their nadir about a year after a very close friend killed herself. The metronome felt as if it would splinter my skull, I was still thinking about my friend a lot, and one day somebody drove me over the edge at work. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hillary on Obama Photo: 'I Know Nothing About It'... Feb 26, 2008
Political Radar: Clinton on photo: 'Why is anybody concerned about this. February 25, 2008 6:02 PM. (The Drudge Report)
Making of a people-friendly budget Feb 25, 2008
The trumpeted economic reforms have not yet percolated to the poorer sections of the society and their standard of living is still at its nadir. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi recently hoped that the Finance Minister will address women and farmers concerns in the budget 2008-09. (Hindu)
At a nadir, Clinton seeks Mass. support Feb 25, 2008
At a nadir, Clinton seeks Mass ... At a nadir, Clinton seeks Mass. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Enjoy the calm after the storm Feb 24, 2008
The nadir of Western pop civilisation - the chillout compilation - came to pass. Now Alison Goldfrapp has followed the bestial Weimar disco of 2005's Supernature, with a record inspired by folk, psychedelia and really nice string arrangements. (The Observer)
Sharper Image seeks bankruptcy protection Feb 22, 2008
Sharper Image Corp., the iconic San Francisco retail chain known for selling R2-D2 interactive droids, vacuuming robots and air purifiers, has filed for bankruptcy protection, the nadir of a long descent sparked by a critical review of its hottest product. The company was a consumer phenomenon in its heyday. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Coal Mine Safety Shortchanged by Years of Budget Cuts Feb 21, 2008
From FY 1997, when the agency's budget reached its historical nadir, to FY 2007, the agency's budget grew almost 19 percent when adjusted for inflation. However, staffing levels did not follow a similar trend. (OMB Watch)
Wizards Lose to Franchise Record-Setting Knicks Feb 20, 2008
The Knicks' nadir came when Fred Jones, the trailer on a fast break, missed badly attempting a flying one-handed dunk. The Wizards built a nine-point lead, but New York ended the quarter with a 6-0 run and trailed 70-67 going into the fourth. (ABC 7 News, DC)
The good doctor's ghosts Feb 12, 2008
" But if he is a saint to the hungry ghosts, he is an imperfect one who takes pains to point out his faults, including his own addictions and his attempts to overcome them. The book has been a way of processing his own inner demons. Born in 1944 in Budapest, Hungary, two months before the Nazi occupation, he was sent to live with relatives, living outside the Jewish ghetto, when he was one year old. His grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old. Sensitive from a young age... (Globe and Mail)
The comeback curmudgeon Feb 9, 2008
Last July, around the time Mr. McCain phoned his friend Orson Swindle to gauge his thoughts, his candidacy had reached its nadir. Inexplicably, to many observers, he had abandoned his familiar role as the feisty outsider in favour of portraying himself as an establishment man, the presumptive heir to the current president's throne; he had hired several top-ranking Bush advisers and put together a costly, unwieldy political machine. (Globe and Mail)
MPs must not employ relations Feb 3, 2008
If the Foreigners' party wants to rid itself of the Sleasey label paying its Asil Nadir donations to the defrauded shareholders would be a start. If MPs are to be forbidden from employing wives etc what about unreasonable preferment because of club membership. (Telegraph.co.uk)
India - the new Powerhouse of world cricket Feb 2, 2008
RELATIONS between India and Australia reached their nadir during the SCG Test. Many factors were involved; bad umpiring, more close shaves than Kojak ever had, a desire for revenge in one party, high pride in the other, and antagonistic conduct from the hosts. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
The Olympian challenge facing school sports Feb 2, 2008
"The disastrous decline Coe describes is all too familiar to educationalists who watched PE wither. The nadir came in the 1980s as Labour-run local authorities downgraded competitive sport while the Conservatives allowed playing fields to be sold off at a rate of 40 a week. Industrial action compounded the mess, destroying the voluntary contract between teacher and state that had allowed most after-school and weekend sport to be facilitated by teachers in their spare time. By the end of the... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The McCanns' debate: from banality to an outpouring of bile Feb 1, 2008
A source close to the couple said: "British police warned Kate and Gerry when they were in Portugal that their phones and emails might have been tapped into. *************************** It beggars belief that any adult would imagine that these articles were simply invented from thin air even if they hadn't been confirmed by people acting for the suspects themselves. The question that should be asked is why the Guardian has commissioned this nonsense from Roy Greenslade and why it commmissioned... (Media Guardian)
Middle Age a Low Point for Most Feb 1, 2008
In the United States, however, some as-yet unexplained gender differences were observed, with happiness among men dipping the most in their early 50s, whereas women hit their nadir around the age of 40. The researchers cautioned that cheerful people tend to live longer than unhappy people -- a fact that might have skewed the overall finding. (MEDLINEplus)
Mid-life crisis occurs globally, says study Jan 30, 2008
People everywhere follow a U-shaped curve of psychological well-being, with a nadir in their mid 40s. Two economics professors, Andrew Oswald of Warwick University and David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the US, carried out the study, to be published shortly in the journal Social Science & Medicine. (Financial Times)
KAUFMAN'S KORNER: Does it get any better than this? Jan 29, 2008
The team s mediocre playoff performances led to mid-first round, non-impact draft selections, which ultimately resulted in the franchise s nadir: a 20-win team in 2006 that was supposed to land much-hyped college freshmen Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. And similar to the Red Sox s Curse of the Bambino, the Celtics themselves had suffered through multiple curses (Len Bias, the Maryland basketball superstar who tragically died of a cocaine overdose in 1986; Reggie Lewis, the Celtic great who died of a... (Easton Journal, MA)
Bush has big plans for final year Jan 28, 2008
Unlike Reagan, whose popularity hit a low during the Iran-contra affair in 1987 and was rebounding by 1988, Bush's poll ratings remain near their nadir. Americans concerned about Iraq now are worried about the economy. (USA Today -- News)
The snare of stimulus Jan 23, 2008
Indeed Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who engineered the rapid recovery, had gone so far as to cut civil service salaries by 10% at the nadir of the Depression in 1931, thus reducing government spending, basically on the entirely correct grounds that the option value of civil servants' guaranteed job security was higher in an economic downturn. The Great Depression was primarily caused not by the 1929 stock market crash but by the Smoot-Hawley tariff passed in 1930 (a... (Asia Times Online)
Dow takes a bath, dragging local shares down Jan 23, 2008
8 percent to 11,634 points at its nadir, but started to hover between 11,000 and 12,010 at 1 p.m. trading. The last time the Dow fell below the 12,000 mark was in March 2007. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Man given 18-yr prison term for raping women on trains, in station Jan 18, 2008
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 25 years in prison, saying the defendant had sent the victims "to the nadir of terror in public" and that it is likely that he will commit similar crimes in the future. The defense had argued for leniency, claiming that brain damage suffered by Uezono due to a traffic accident may have influenced his acts. (News on Japan, Japan)
Breaking Down the Black Vote Jan 18, 2008
The fuss descended to a tawdry nadir on Jan. 13, when black entertainment baron and Clinton supporter Robert Johnson obliquely reminded a South Carolina audience that Obama has admitted using drugs. "Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing--but he said it in his book," Johnson said with a smirk. (Time.com)
Letters to the Editor Jan 16, 2008
The Clinton campaign's dirty tricks and racist comments may have reached their nadir at two events on Sunday in South Carolina. In her appearance on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, Clinton firmly denied that she or her husband had made any negative personal attacks on Obama. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Libya: Gaddafi's New Ties Worry Rights Advocates Jan 1, 2008
It was a blend that, along with his expansive, cross-border political ambitions, saw Libya's relations with Europe and the United States sink to their nadir in the late 1980s following a slew of incidents blamed by some on the Gaddafi regime. Most notorious among these was the bombing of a Berlin disco in April 1986, which killed three people and injured over 200 (for which a Libyan diplomat was convicted along with three others) -- and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988, which... (allAfrica.com)
South Africa: Attack On Diplomat Leaves Colleagues in Fear Dec 31, 2007
com: South Africa: Attack On Diplomat Leaves Colleagues in Fear (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Foreign diplomat attacked again Dec 31, 2007
In January, Nadir Khan Jadoon, the press and cultural counsellor of the Pakistani High Commission, was attacked at his Groenkloof home. In February, gangsters robbed six US embassy officials after breaking into the home of an embassy employee in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria. (iAfrica.com)
It's time to let the courts back in Dec 29, 2007
Mohamed Haneef's case was the nadir. When the Indian doctor was granted bail by a Queensland magistrate, a government minister took steps to throw him into immigration detention instead. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A generational divide Dec 27, 2007
The nadir in Irving Oil's community relations came a year ago, when it was harshly criticized for striking a sweetheart long-term tax deal with the city for its new LNG terminal, reminiscent of the huge breaks K.C. used to hammer out of governments. The deal became national news, reviving the old image of the Irvings as skinflint plutocrats who wield their economic muscle for naked advantage. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Commitment pays off big for Kikkan Randall Dec 18, 2007
In 1998, possibly the nadir of U.S. cross-country skiing, no American cracked the top 30 at the Nagano Olympics, and "quite a few results were dead last.". Since then the United States has made an investment in technology and research to aid skiers, Bodensteiner said. (Anchorage Daily News)
Hamas police arrest aide to Palestinian prime minister Dec 15, 2007
Ghul returned to Gaza from Ramallah, in the West Bank, to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the Hamas police came to arrest him about 1:30 a.m., according to his son, Nadir al-Ghul, who is in Ramallah. Abbas, through a spokesman, called the arrest a "kidnapping" and a "criminal and dangerous act adding to the long list of crimes committed daily by Hamas in the Gaza Strip." Fayyad's information minister, Riyad al-Malki, blamed "criminals working for Hamas" and called for Ghul's... (International Herald Tribune)
For Afghan boys and men, kite flying is a way of life Dec 15, 2007
Kite flying on Nadir Khan hill, a setting made popular by "The Kite Runner." (Max Becherer for the NYT). For Afghan boys and men, kite flying is a way of life. (International Herald Tribune)
John Edwards' Defining Moment Dec 13, 2007
For the candidate who had been lauded as the next Bill Clinton not so many months before, it was a depressing nadir. "I remember thinking to myself, 'What are you doing?'" says Edwards. (Time.com)
Not guilty pleas entered on toddler death charges Dec 11, 2007
Nadir Sekoue Turner, of the 2600 block of Lamott Avenue in the Willow Grove section of the township, waived his arraignment Nov. 28 in Montgomery County Court on charges of third-degree murder, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the September death of 4-year-old Jordan Jackson, the son of Turner's girlfriend ... When a relative of Turner's asked the child that day about bruises on his body, the boy responded, "Nadir hit me," according to the criminal... (Springfield Sun, PA)
Teen Sex: There are No Positives Dec 7, 2007
We have reached the nadir of a pagan society, where selfish desires become what is 'moral. . (Human Events Online)
A film unfortunately awake in title only Dec 3, 2007
Clay Beresford (Christensen, still trying to find a medium between the nadir that was Star Wars and the high of Shattered Glass) is a very rich young man. We see him typing at a desk and making a vague merger with some Japanese businessmen, so he's obviously successful. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Aces squeeze off 44 shots in loss Dec 2, 2007
Presumably, the Alaska Aces' current four-game swoon, which reached its nadir with Friday night's 3-1 road loss to the Florida Everblades, would be easier for them to accept if the effort was indifferent. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
The A-to-Zep of a band who rocked heaven ... and hell Nov 25, 2007
By contrast, Jones and Page produced a string of undistinguished albums that reached their nadir with Page's soundtrack for Death Wish II and Jones's for Scream for Help, both by Michael Winner. X is for Excess The abuse of groupies and hotels became so notorious that when Grant introduced himself to Bob Dylan as the band's manager, Dylan replied: 'I don't come to you with my problems, do I. (The Observer)
The real Rudy Nov 24, 2007
At its current nadir, the Republicans had been blessed with five heterodox presidential candidates who had the potential to modernize the party on a variety of fronts. They could be competing to do that, but instead they are competing to appeal to the narrowest slice of the old guard and flatter the most rigid orthodoxies of the Beltway interest groups. (International Herald Tribune)
More menorahs: Accumulation over the years turns gifts into collections Nov 23, 2007
She says the nadir of menorah design was in the 1980s, when brassy models were popular. "I have a really ugly brass menorah from my family," she said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Mitt Romney's Faith-Based Problem Nov 21, 2007
Mississippi Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Eaves Jr. declared himself to be "on Jesus' side." Political secularism - the notion that elections should not be contested on the basis of candidates' religiosity - is at a modern nadir. In a country where most Americans say they would never vote for an atheist, the political logic of faith-based politics is undeniable. (CBS News)
...In red bricks and green grass Nov 18, 2007
But the prospects for Lawrence have been improving since its nadir in the recession of the early 1990s. The city is investing in improved services and infrastructure, including parks. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
stds On the Rise in the US After Years of Decline Nov 15, 2007
Although rates of primary and secondary syphilis reached a nadir in 2000, the rate has been creeping back up, and from 2005 to 2006 the rates for both primary and secondary increased from 2. 9 per 100,000 to 3. (MedPage Today)
Rise up, city of Seattle: It's time to pull out all the stops to keep the SuperSonics. Nov 13, 2007
This hasn't exactly been a great recent run for Stern -- what with a betting scandal involving a referee, the flap over his dress code and a failed experiment with a synthetic basketball -- but this moment is his absolute nadir. Stern is siding with a man who has made it his intention from Day 1 to break Seattle's heart by any means necessary. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)
