Word: bents
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Despite her difficulties, Stern agreed. “Harvard’s IRB is the only one I know of to approve the kind of research I do. They’ve bent over backwards to make what I do possible, which is better than any other IRB,” she said...
...game will tell you, is that cricket is neither gentle nor even that noble these days. Over the past decade international cricket has been shaken by a series of scandals - match fixing, doping, illegal bowling actions (a cricket ball must be delivered with a straight arm; a bent elbow as in baseball's pitching action is impermissible) - that have sandpapered away much of the honor and decency that the game once embodied...
...Huckabee and Brownback, a moment of biblical temptation looms. Both will be spending most of their time in Iowa, where Republicans have a strong religious bent. Both Robertson and Buchanan have done well there. The temptation will be to slouch back to hellfire and brimstone to unite conservative Christians. It will be an exquisite test of faith for a Second Commandment Christian like Huckabee: Thou Shalt or Thou Shalt Not? Can you win the Iowa caucus without losing your soul? time-blog.com/swampland
...easy being a dictator. After years spent carefully balancing the demands of his domestic backers and his friends in Washington, not to mention fighting one of the hottest fronts in the war on terror and warding off militants bent on assassinating him, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has spent the past week grappling with a new headache - angry lawyers...
...Clark, a member of the Crimson Key Society and the Hasty Pudding Club, founded an after-school tutoring program with Wilkis, and Clark taught the language arts. She began to adopt a literary bent, concentrating in English...