Word: aced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mainly with the states, which are short on resources--a condition that may have allowed abuses to incubate. Insurer Marsh & McLennan, formerly run by Greenberg's son Jeffrey, agreed to pay $850 million to settle civil fraud charges earlier this year. Others being probed include Chubb, Swiss Reinsurance and ACE...
Maine, the No. 1 team in the country entering the day, was on the ropes. Jimmy Howard, statistically the best goaltender in the country and the Black Bears’ ace in the hole, had been driven from between the pipes after arguably his worst showing of the season...
...quickly grabbed a 17-7 lead, punctuated by several kills and an ace by freshman middle hitter Jon Daley. Although the Crimson attempted to repair the damage, they never seemed to get back on track, losing the game...
...Portland, Ore.-based trio recorded its 2003 debut, “I Am the Fun Blame Monster,” using “Deeler,” a proprietary computer program written entirely by Brent Knopf, their giddy keyboardist. Knopf’s ace coding allowed the band to compose complex pop suites by looping and sequencing live improvisations into tricky recursive structures. The components of its instrumental arrangements swooped in and fell out of trapdoors, constantly intertwining and unraveling like the title’s dorkily brilliant anagram (“The First Menomena Album?...
...utter lack of personality are standard operating procedure for vast swathes of the student body. Ambition to be the best in things that ultimately don’t matter—to get the highest paying investment banking job, to get into the best medical or law school, to ace every class—trumps all else...