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Word: amateurness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people cleaning up the debris so soon after the assassination. "It's a crime scene, and they're washing away all the evidence! We need to be asking why the hell was this thing done." One of the few pieces of evidence from the crime scene that remains is amateur footage showing a clean-cut man in a black vest brandishing what appears to be a gun. Behind him stands another man, a white scarf wrapped around his head. It is thought that he might have been the suicide bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing Evidence from Bhutto's Murder | 12/31/2007 | See Source »

...Others, however, continue to deny use. But quibbling about what types of drugs were used and when and by whom, is a distraction from the larger truth: professional baseball long ago ceased to be a contest of athleticism. A large part of the appeal of following sports, professional or amateur, is predicated on the belief that they are fair contests. That the team with the most skill, the most practice, and even, sometimes, the most luck will prevail. Tilting the playing field further to include external, synthetic factors like steroids is damaging to the basic integrity of any athletic contest...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: 40/40*, 102 MPH*, 756* | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

Since then, the boom in bets related to climate change has proliferated in other financial markets, too. With amateur and professional investors alike growing more concerned about global warming, financial institutions are finding a myriad of ways to cash in. A whole host of new indices, funds and esoteric instruments have been created to meet their needs. Some, for example, offer ways for investors to ride the long-term growth of sectors such as renewable energy, waste management and Arctic shipping; others bundle and package climate-change risk so it can be traded like platinum or pork bellies by hedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Cow | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...constant flow of ads, contests, and entertainment can still prevent fans from maintaining a connection with the game.Ultimately, keeping that connection to the game is how to find the storylines that make any game exciting, and going across the river to the rink still has the feel of amateur competition in a university I’ve come to call home. Maybe I’ve spent too much time at the Bright, but it’s hard picturing its atmosphere in any other way. For now, I’m happy to walk around during a home game...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BIG SHOT BOB: Sponsors Can’t Touch Harvard | 11/27/2007 | See Source »

...world” who can use the technique, said her advisor, earth and planetary sciences professor Daniel P. Schrag. Sambu, who received the scholarship as a representative of his native Kenya, has a similarly impressive collection of activities, including membership in several African leadership clubs and a hobby of amateur acrobatics. His thesis is on biodegradable scaffolding for organ transplants. “My interest really would be to conduct research,” he said. “My particular interest is that it should have some impact in Kenya, and in most of the developing world...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Counts 3 Rhodes Scholars | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

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