Word: biters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Administration's hit list. Florida Governor Jeb Bush is paying a team of lobbyists, including former House majority leader Dick Armey, $50,000 a month to help fortify his state's 21 installations. Presumably, Jeb has George's cell number, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the chief bullet biter. That's why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buttonholed him at January's presidential Inauguration; the Golden State has 62 bases to protect. The Governator has also enlisted former Democratic Congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who says, "Having a California Governor who campaigned for this President spells...
...Erin Burdette knocked off Harvard co-captain No. 45 Susanna Lingman by the score of 6-3, 6-1. The two squads split the remaining matches. No. 123 Celia Durkin eventually succumbed to No. 35 Theresa Logan, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 1-0 (4), in a nail-biter, and Wang stole a win over No. 82 Anne Yelsey in No. 6 singles...
...heartbreaker at Harvard Stadium, the Tigers dropped a tight game against Columbia and a double-overtime nail-biter at home versus Yale...
...Nigeria, after immunizations were curtailed due to rumors that the program was a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls. By the end of 2003, another 447 children in Africa had been paralyzed, and health officials are worried the tide has turned against them. "This year is the real nail biter," says Dr. Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the WHO's polio-eradication program. "Under a thousand cases is an unnatural state for an epidemic disease. Either we force it down to zero, or it is going to blow up and paralyze hundreds of thousands of children every year...
After a nail-biter of a 5-4 loss to Princeton handed the Harvard women’s squash team its first Ivy League loss in three years, the Crimson still had a chance to claim a share of its fourth-straight league title with a win over Yale. But the young, feisty Bulldog squad dismantled Harvard 7-2 and the Ivy crown slipped out of reach for the first time in any of the current players’ Crimson careers...