Word: beate
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...were close enough that the feeling was that with a better effort, perhaps we would have beat them," he said. "On the other hand, we were happy to have made the final eight crews...
...lightweight crew won both events this year, finishing ahead of Princeton, the favorite for winning this year's Sprints. Harvard also beat Yale (ranked second after Princeton going into the national competition), Cornell, Navy and Holy Cross...
These days, though, Nethercutt is making exceptions for some Americans. During a recent session of the House Appropriations Committee, he helped beat back a proposal to cut crop subsidies to farm owners who earn more than $100,000 a year in nonfarm income, a measure known as the "Sam Donaldson Amendment,'' after the abc newsman who collected five-figure federal subsidies over the past two years to support his New Mexico sheep ranch. When asked why wealthy farmers should not help balance the budget, Nethercutt, sounding remarkably like Foley, replies that some spending programs are "just a sensible...
...primary will be the biggest wild card of the Super Tuesday set of elections. On that day Gramm hopes to win his own state of Texas, and Lamar Alexander must finish first in his native Tennessee. But if either is to break out of the pack, he must also beat Dole in Florida, a winner-take-all contest for 98 delegates who represent 5% of the total heading to the national convention. Says Mark Merritt of the Alexander campaign: "Before this thing is over, we'll be airlifting sun block to Lamar in Miami...
...Simpson is set free, it will mean either that he is guilty but had a good enough defense to beat the rap or that he is innocent and might have been sentenced to life in prison were it not for a multimillion-dollar legal defense. Once they have been indicted and put on trial, people with limited financial resources stand a good chance of being convicted, even if innocent. Just as the winner of a formal debate is the better debater and is not necessarily the one whose position represents the truth, it seems that American justice depends less...