Word: beate
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...post office. But if Assad released the flyer, Jackson maintained, he would fuel demands within the U.S. for a Marine pullout and achieve his larger goal. Jackson then engaged in a bit of chicanery: he said that if he returned to the U.S. without Goodman, he would be "beat up on" by the "Zionists" in an upcoming debate. Jackson admitted to reporters later that there was no such debate scheduled...
Jackson's staff is so disorganized that even though he raised enough money in 20 states last year to qualify for matching federal funds, it could not assemble the required records to prove this in time to beat a New Year's deadline. The contributions, roughly $400,000, are far short of the funds needed to mount a major challenge to either Mondale or John Glenn, who have collected $9.35 million and $5.7 million, respectively. Jackson has fewer than a dozen paid staffers, compared with more than 160 each for Mondale and Glenn and about 45 for Gary...
Neither Proulx nor Blair particularly enjoyed playing in such a tight game. Asked if Harvard's first shutout of the season was a great way to end a seven-game losing streak, Blair responded: "I would have liked to maybe beat them...
...days in St. Louis. Much of the South suffered the most devastating cold in 20 years, and in the Great Plains and Midwest, weather historians saw parallels with dreadful pioneer winters. "This is decidedly the coldest December in Iowa," said State Climatologist Paul Waite. "It looks like it will beat 1876." Said National Weather Service Meteorologist Kenneth Bergman: "When the records are all in, this may be the worst December in 100 years for the whole...
Another thing they don't do too often is beat the New York Islanders, who have been the Stanley Cup champions for four years, or as long as the Oilers have been in the league. After rolling up 424 goals during the 80-game regular season last year and sailing through the playoffs, Edmon ton was swept meekly in the finals by the Islanders. Though the Oilers' record is now the best in the league, two more losses to New York last month depressed them momentarily. To be sure, not enough to exchange their freewheeling skaters' game...