Barns: Nickname for big, old-style movie theaters. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzwords] Reference
Do your kids use those old-style school composition notebooks?. From Wordnik.com. [Back-to-school shopping and safety tips] Reference
"But this old-style life course is crumbling before their eyes.". From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Young Slackers] Reference
If this isn't old-style nationalization, maybe it needs another name?. From Wordnik.com. [Did We Kick Them Out?] Reference
NEWSWEEK: The last old-style Beetle rolled off the production line this week. From Wordnik.com. [Q&Amp;A: Herbie Has Left The Building] Reference
"Yes, this is old-style capitalism," says one French source close to the deal. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Snatchers] Reference
Azizah, too, once cowed by Malaysia's old-style politics, is no longer afraid. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Of The Revolt] Reference
Is your own party dangerously split between reformists and old-style Sukarno socialists?. From Wordnik.com. ['Putting Together A Mosaic'] Reference
"Bachelet happens to represent the furthest possible point away from old-style politics.". From Wordnik.com. [An Unlikely Pioneer] Reference
But now Japan's old-style managers, like its political and business leaders, have competition. From Wordnik.com. [Zen And Now: Godzilla At The Bat] Reference
Ibrahim al-Jaafari believes in old-style campaign tactics — like paying off tribal blood debts. From Wordnik.com. [Stumping For Sunnis] Reference
It isn't corruption, they say, so much as an old-style cronyism that lives on in the new Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Sunset on the Liffey?] Reference
Instead, an old-style autocracy based on confrontation was created, leaving no room for compromise. From Wordnik.com. [The Only Way Out] Reference
CONAN: One thing that old-style politicians were noted for was bringing home the bacon or the pork. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Sen. Stevens And Rep. Rostenkowski] Reference
Ericsson grew up selling to governments and big, old-style phone companies; Nokia understood retail. From Wordnik.com. [Battle Of The Nordic Giants] Reference
At the local level in old-style, big-city party patronage politics nothing was more clearly understood. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Protection] Reference
But he thrives as an inside player, in touch with old-style operatives and the party's Internet vanguard. From Wordnik.com. [The Democrats' Disciplinarian] Reference
In policy terms, it means finding a navigable channel between all-out Thatcherism and old-style socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Gerhard-Bill-Lionel-Tonyism?] Reference
He and DeLillo decide we should go to the Carnegie Deli, an old-style New York hang-out on Seventh Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear'] Reference
In the early 1990s Varon worked in finance at Xerox, and the department's VP was an old-style organization man. From Wordnik.com. [The Company Of Women] Reference
Such old-style tactics only confirm the suspicions of people who already doubted Mousavi's reformist credentials. From Wordnik.com. [Anyone but Ahmadinejad] Reference
They were the suit-clad CEOs of the old-style blue chips -- GM, Sony, Siemens -- at the pinnacle of global business. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Ideas] Reference
The ranks of the young parliamentarians also include old-style leftists who bemoan any cutbacks in the welfare state. From Wordnik.com. [Berlin's Fresh Faces] Reference
Whistling Straits is designed to mimic an old-style links course, with more bunkers than you can count – literally. From Wordnik.com. [Dustin Johnson Bunker Penalty Clouds PGA Championship With Controversy] Reference
Increasingly, experts argue that old-style land reform, based on land giveaways, is a secondary issue -- or should be. From Wordnik.com. [A Plot Of Their Own] Reference
No one in the Clinton camp holds up old-style programs like the WPA or CETA as models for Clinton's new-style thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Bailing Out The Jobless] Reference
Once again, they are wearing traditional clothes, building old-style homes and using traditional agricultural techniques. From Wordnik.com. [Damage Control] Reference
Some political observers see Hank's election as indicative of how old-style, pork-barrel PRI politics have returned to Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [THE MILLIONAIRE MAYOR] Reference
At Northwestern University, Sarah Brownlee, a 20-year-old junior, supports abortion rights but not old-style political activism. From Wordnik.com. [GENERATION AMBIVALENT] Reference
The pocket-size hardcovers have old-style deckled-edge pages and understated neo-Victorian illustrations by artist Brett Helquist. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Harry Potter] Reference
Then he argues for five pages that the government must "correctly utilize this old-style market" to "upgrade people's livelihood.". From Wordnik.com. [Green Buds In The Mud] Reference
A revival of old-style Japan Inc. wouldn't necessarily resurrect the self-sacrificing work ethic that made Japan an industrial titan. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Young Slackers] Reference
Veda is a blend of old and new: set in colonial Delhi, it boasts ancient artifacts and old-style dishes plated in sleek modern fashion. From Wordnik.com. [No Place For Curry] Reference
Kaddoumi is a self-important old-style bureaucrat, the sort of man reformers see as capable only of preserving the slow-moving status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Arafat Talks: Marriage, Peace And The Plane Crash] Reference
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