Fearful that a string of 100-degree days this summer might result in selected power failures, the Long Island Power Authority is asking commercial customers Island-wide and residential customers on the East End to let the utility to turn off their air-conditioning during periods of peak usage.
Drop as many g's as you want, Perth has gone into full meltdown with the longest string of 40+ degree days since 1933.
But if it hadn't been for a string of 90-plus-degree days with 90percentt humidity, I probably would never have bothered replacing it short of a natural crumby death.
But the director in question is Jerry Zaks, who not so very long ago also produced a string of hits, including "Six Degrees of Separation," "The House of Blue Leaves," "Lend Me a Tenor" and "Guys and Dolls," each of which won him a Tony Award -- not to mention his Tony nominations for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Anything Goes" and "Smokey Joe's Cafe".
If temperatures Friday follow in Wednesday and Thursday's footsteps and also crack 100, the city would see the first string of three consecutive 100-degree-plus days since 1947, the Chicago Tribune reports.
And in New York, a string of days more than 20 degrees warmer than usual have sent baffled residents searching for sundresses and wondering if it is too soon to schedule a trip to the garden store.
From a Tumblr to a Book to…: Wash That Blog Out With Soap At 24, Emma Koenig has amassed all the accouterments of her generation: an expensive college degree; a string of low-paying (and no-paying) jobs; and the lease on an overpriced, undersize apartment in the East Village stuffed with a rotating cast of Craigslist roommates, which she eventually gave up to move back in with her parents.
Not everyone is primed to be a modern-day Heraclitus, like Alain de Botton, who starts each day, it seems, by cranking up his inner fortune-cookie machine and producing a string of tweets that are, to varying degrees, sour, funny, fatalistic, and bitingly true.
A Matter of Degrees Before No. K0862 could be tuned and pounded, it needed strings.
The aim of the present study was to investigate further the neural mechanism subserving reading and the time course of lexical processing by comparing the bioelectrical activities elicited by letter strings with various degrees of semantic denotation (inducing a graded level of global lexical activity) and orthographic legality.
