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CNBC, NBC's slick business-news channel, for instance, has turned coverage of stockmarkets into a breathless motor-racing-style commentary and bred a new variety of devoted business-news junky.
His co-author, David Roberts, provides good alternate chapters predominantly about the early 1920s expeditions".Ghosts of Everest", by Jochen Hemmleb, an obsessive Mallory junky , together with Larry Johnson, a publisher, and Eric Simonson, a mountain guide is a thoroughly commercial, "authorised" version.
High-yield borrowers elsewhere, such as Turkey, could follow the Latins' lead.The attraction in Brazil's case is a junk-bond yield 12.75% on the Euro-real issue from an economy that looks less and less junky.
A well-designed tax would be high enough to deter consumers and broad enough to keep them from switching to another junky drink.
Still an oily dangerous mess Gang warfare ReprintsThey are well acquainted with the gangs that roam the area, reeling off their names: the Americans, the Hard Livings, the Junky Funky Kids.
By itself, this is not a failure... and contrary to mileage junky blog sites, it does not represent a mortal sin.
First, there is little agreement on how to define healthy and junky food respectively.
Even a deep-fried Oreo, a cannonball of fat and sugar, will not doom the consumer to obesity if eaten only occasionally.The uncertainty over which foods are healthy and which are junky makes it difficult to gauge how much progress the industry has achieved.
The fact that death is barely punished means you'll be resuming play almost as soon as your previous body has finished crumpling to the floor – so is the lot of the Call of Duty online junky.
His friend Burroughs, cold, scary and a connoisseur of extreme behaviour, was 30; his years of success with Naked Lunch and Junky came later, in 1959.
The jangle of brash, gaudy trash for sale both in shops (Iceland, 99p Stores, Pricebusters, Better Ethnic and European Fashionware, the obligatory blackened Woolworths) and in junky kiosks cluttering the corridor, forms a chaotic collage worthy of Joseph Cornell, a bright, excited canvas reminiscent of Kandinsky: bogus-brass bangles, synthetic shag bathmats, and toothy Alice bands.
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The word "junky" functions primarily as an adjective , describing something that is of poor quality, broken down, or filled with junk. Ludwig provides examples demonstrating this usage in contexts ranging from describing physical objects to abstract concepts. It also can function as a noun for a person with an addiction.
Expression frequency: Very common
