Word: blanke
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...First Amendment guarantees each American’s freedom of religion and ensures that no religion is sanctioned or favored by the government. Bush’s order, however, essentially exempts religious groups from federal civil rights laws and non-discrimination policies. Giving religious groups a blank check to discriminate in hiring practices at the same time that secular groups are prohibited from doing so sets a policy of bias in favor of religious groups—a clear violation of the separation of church and state...
...first minute of the second period, after sophomore defenseman Ashley Banfield gave up the puck in her own zone, Ruddock was forced to make a glove save on a shot from point blank range. She succeeded in knocking the puck up in the air and then held strong during the ensuing scramble. In the third period, Ruddock stopped a breakaway...
...shot did, after all, come from point-blank range, and it required the goaltender to react quickly...
With Prey Crichton goes from dino to nano: the baddie comes from the currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must...
Grumet-Morris stopped 29 shots on the night, stoning multiple Terrier breakaways and wide-open chances. He allowed just two goals, both coming on shots or deflections from point-blank range...