Word: aceing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...remembering that he was playing this game because we’re an irreputable media outfit, Summers quickly said that I’d probably get honors even if we lost. I said “We’ll see about that, ha,” a goddamn ace compared to my earlier banter...
...database’s history of inefficiency threatens to deprive the nation of the valuable intellectual resources that many international students bring, President of the American Council on Education (ACE) David Ward told the House Immigration Subcommittee...
...century of casual, blood-ripped Hollywood action fantasies. And it is far more potent than anything we've seen from Iraq during the first 10 days of the war. This is puzzling. We are closer to war than ever before - hardly half an hour goes by without some embedded ace breathlessly reporting, in real time, from the front. But the war we are seeing is bowdlerized, PG-rated. There are fancy explosions galore, shown from a great distance; there are retired generals wandering through giant maps with pointers and Telestrators; there are gagging doses of Oprah-like human-interest drama...
...game showed the Crimson was a cut above the Warriors. In the early stages of the game, East Stroudsburg missed three kills and botched two sets, quickly falling behind 9-4. Harvard took advantage, pushing the lead to double figures, 20-10, on the strength of an ace and two kills by Kowell. The Crimson never allowed the Warriors to get within seven points, ending the match in complete control...
...arts tends to be lower than in other large European nations, ENO faces an old and difficult challenge: marrying creative freedom with commercial viability. "It's the terrible tension between wanting to spend money and running your organization well," says David McNeill, a spokesman for Arts Council England (ACE), a public-funding organization. Since ENO's chairman, Martin Smith, has an investment banking background, critics are finding it easy to insist that he is driven by financial considerations above all else. Such an attitude, says actress Fiona-Jane Weston, who attended the protest at St. Paul's Church, is about...