Word: almost
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Last season, Hill led the Crimson and was sixth in the Ivy League with 16 points per game, and led the league with 6.6 assists per game, almost one better than his nearest competitor, Dartmouth's Flinder Boyd...
...choices were almost too rich to pick from, and if you believe the Gore folks, all were off target. While each man played some part in getting the Vice President to bring Coelho aboard, Gore aides say the pivotal role belonged to the one person no one suspected--Gore's wife Tipper. Several campaign aides described Tipper as the godmother of the shuffle, the biggest fan of the deal. One added that Tipper, far more than the half-dozen bickering guys in Gore's inner circle, "knew there had to be some help in here. Somebody was needed to knock...
...them don't. But it's the impressionable ones I worry about, and the industry is getting better at getting across its own impressions of reality. The pounding rock music, the crashing sound effects, the shrieks and grunts that poured out of loudspeakers onto E3's crowded aisles could almost turn even a middle-aged father like me into a Doomer. Almost...
...surprisingly, perhaps, Martin's homelife suffered--both his parents wanted to see more of him, and his father asked him to choose between him and his mother. Hurt and angered by the ultimatum, Martin stopped talking to his father for almost a decade. A few years ago, they reconciled...
...Almost as a lark, the investigators decided to ask the parents of 479 of their patients about the nighttime lighting in their children's bedrooms. It was a shot in the dark, but what they found was truly eye opening. While 10% of the kids who slept in darkness before age two later became nearsighted, the figure rose to 34% among those who slept with a night light, and an astonishing 55%--nearly a fivefold increase--among those who slept with the room lights on. It may be that eyes need a period of darkness to develop properly. Bedroom lighting...