Word: bernard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward. During Katrina, a barge pierced the Industrial Canal's levee, flooding the Lower Ninth Ward. Since then, the Corps has built 15-foot-high walls - which it calls "T-Walls" - made of concrete. Other points in the region vulnerable to flooding are St. Bernard Parish, just south and east of the Lower Ninth Ward, and Houma, near where Gustav landed...
...built Barrick from nothing into the world's biggest gold-mining company, invested his own money to start the Montenegro project. But in recent months he has brought in an A list of fellow investors, including former banker Lord Jacob Rothschild and his son Nathan, French luxury-goods magnate Bernard Arnault and Russian mining billionaire Oleg Deripaska...
...athletes shifting national alliances. Some Nordic states have granted asylum to African runners who later competed for their national teams. The U.S. table-tennis team is stacked with Chinese-born players, while the three American runners competing in the men's 1,500 m are all naturalized citizens, including Bernard Lagat, who won medals for Kenya in two previous Olympics (but failed to make the finals in Beijing...
...Athens, in fact, that was on Lezak's mind as he made the turn into the final. "I'm not going to lie, but when I flipped and saw how far ahead [Bernard] was, and he's the world record holder, the thought caught my mind for a split second of: 'There's no way.' But I changed that, and said, 'This is ridiculous. This is the Olympics. I'm here for the United States of America, and I don't care how bad it hurts. So I got supercharged and took it from there...
...Lezak's 100m leg of 46.06 seconds was the fastest among all 32 legs in the race, and while Bernard swam a faster first 50m, Lezak, who also picked up the anchor leg for the U.S. in the last two Olympics, caught up in stunning fashion and motored to the wall. Going into Lezak's 100m, the French were .59 second ahead. It might have helped, too, that Lezak was able to see Bernard all the way down the last lap. Lezak breathes on his right side, and there's nothing like seeing exactly where your opponent...