• This turned out to be a distance of twenty-six miles three hundred and eighty-five yards.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • Next Halloween, will we be a safe enough distance away to wear gross-out costumes again?

    CNN: Attacks force pop culture to step back

  • He wondered if the call was long-distance, if he should yell out to stop reading Scripture into the phone at twelve cents a minute.

    NEWYORKER: Idols

  • The colors provide a stark contrast to the dark burned-out shell of a house that sits in the distance -- and offer a painful reminder of the tragedy that befell the people who lived within.

    CNN: Kentucky house fire kills 2 adults, 5 children

  • Dundee United defender Lee Wilkie fired in a low drive from distance to cancel out the opener as half-time beckoned.

    BBC: Hibernian 2-1 Dundee United

  • The frantic efforts of Andersen this week to sort out its post-Enron fate smack of worried men and women seeking to distance themselves from the stench emerging from the Houston office of their partners in the firm of international auditors.

    ECONOMIST: Professional services

  • It's like buying a new cell phone, only to get it home and find out it won't dial long-distance.

    CNN: Bill Press: Bush's victory is a hollow one

  • The day before, I asked the champion trainer about his instinct (my favourite question) as to whether the horse's never-tested stamina would last out the distance.

    BBC: KAUTO STAR - THE NEW DESERT ORCHID?

  • Seen from a distance, he might have brought to mind an old, out-of-favor stereotype: the savage in a headdress.

    NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan

  • But the box turned out to be no more than a glorified router used to send long-distance calls through Qwest (see "The Matrix Unraveled, " Sept. 20, 2004), and Norvergence was later forced into bankruptcy.

    FORBES: Eliot Spitzer, Meet Rhonda Shearer

  • Along with The Park, a 5.2-acre feat of urban green space atop a freeway (to be completed next year) the bridge will connect Downtown Dallas to its adjacent neighborhoods creating even further distance from its worn-out stereotype of flashing cash and ten-gallons of makeup.

    WSJ: Luke Wilson and Others Give An Insider's Guide to Dallas

  • So consumers were out using their digital SLRs and point-and-shoots to immortalize their time and space whatever distance they went.

    FORBES: Are Canon, Nikon, and Samsung In Danger of Losing Their Digital Focus?

  • Yet there are indications that Stoudemire could make an impact if the Knicks spaced him out to 22 feet or so, which is the distance to the three-point stripe in the corners.

    WSJ: What to Do With Stoudemire

  • MCI's dream of offering integrated long-distance, local and Internet access without having to pay the Baby Bells their current tariff of 45 cents out of every dollar of long-distance revenues.

    ECONOMIST: WorldCom tucks in��again

  • It was the Lib Dem leader who brought together her two counterparts in the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru to hammer out a joint statement and agree on the format of the vote - no mean feat given the political distance between Andrew RT Davies and Leanne Wood.

    BBC: State of Play 3 - The Lib Dems

  • Villa finally showed some attacking threat before the break - Ashley Young failing to hit the target from long distance after Brian Jensen had rushed out unsuccessfully from his goal, while the otherwise excellent Graham Alexander skewed a clearance narrowly wide.

    BBC: Burnley 1-1 Aston Villa

  • You might think that a guy with a well-established penchant for blurting out things that brought the world down on his head would want to maintain minimum safe distance from a medium that at times seems to exist primarily to lull smart people into committing public acts of stupidity.

    FORBES: Rush Limbaugh + Twitter = A Recipe For Disaster

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