Word: benching
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...game is played with heart and the entire bench rises to high-five a player for simply advancing the runner...
...when I joined a little League team. By the end of the first week, the coach had convinced my mother that my talents actually equipped me better for softball than baseball. As it turned out, he was mistaken. I was equally ill-suited for softball and languished on the bench much of the season after amassing double digits in both batting average and number of fielding errors...
...played with intensity unseen previously this season. One moment, senior guard James White (four points) knocks the ball away from a Cornell player and lands with a thud on the ground. The next, junior forward Mike Gilmore (10 points) slams one of his two dunks home, causing the home bench to jump...
...this point, big brother Joe feels the need to slam himself down on a park bench, which must feel roughly like sitting on a block of dry ice. But he doesn't care. He's beyond physical pain. I sort of expected to feel triumphant at this point, but I don't. So I let him off the hook. ``I just came from your accounting firm,'' I say. ``I told them I had discovered an error in my calculations -- that my set-top box had a faulty chip. I supplied them with 27 new numbers, which I worked...
...Casey became head of the CIA and brought Sporkin along as general counsel. In that post he issued the famous legal finding that provided cover for the Reagan Administration's secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. Since being appointed to the federal bench by Reagan in 1986, Sporkin has made himself a name as a man with little patience for malfeasance by Big Business. "He's a rare judge who is sympathetic to the way the law intersects with consumer interests and investor interests," says consumer activist Ralph Nader. It was Sporkin at his most sulfurous who dismissed...