Word: blanks
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...known as Blank Monday in the surfing world, the $4.5 billion industry's core snapped like a board caught in the Banzai Pipeline. Reason? The closure of Gordon (Grubby) Clark's four-decade virtual monopoly on polyurethane blanks, the raw material for most surfboards. (Shapers then customize them for surfers.) Clark's Laguna Niguel, Calif., company produced 80% of blanks worldwide, and his sudden exit (encircled by rumors of pressure by environmental regulators) left surfers treading water as board prices doubled and deliveries were cut off. One man's wipeout, though, could be another's dream wave. Harold Walker...
...judges. Gone is the punitive 6.0 system, in which the athletes start with the maximum score of perfection and lose points for mistakes and poorly executed skills or because the French judge doesn't like magenta. In its place is a cumulative system in which skaters begin with a blank slate and accumulate points, depending on the elements they complete...
When your writing partner, Diana Ossana, first showed you Annie Proulx's short story, is it true you said, "I don't read short fiction"? I've never been able to read short fiction, and I've never been able to write it. It's a blank in my intellectual life, and I don't know why. I guess I'm naturally a novelist. I want a few hundred pages to make my statement. But that resistance only lasted a minute or so. I read it, and we wrote Annie Proulx our letter asking if we could option...
...cross-ice to streaking linemate T.J. Fox for a quick one-timer past the sliding Daigneau at 15:20 in the third period. But the goaltender protected his net for the rest of the game, including a key right-skate stop of sniper Olivier Bouchard’s point-blank shot in the third minute of overtime. “I thought Daigneau made some [big] saves,” Dutchmen coach Nate Leaman said. “That save he made on [Bouchard] in overtime, that’s a game-saver there.” SHAKING THINGS...
...HARVARD 1SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—Friday night boiled down to a five-minute overtime Friday in the Dutchmen’s Messa Rink.Midway through the extra frame, Union’s Augie DiMarzo fed linemate Olivier Bouchard close in the left circle, but Daigneau’s point-blank pad stop was a “game-saver,” said Dutchmen coach Nate Leaman.And with less than 40 seconds remaining to play, Hafner launched a shot from the blue line that looked to bounce in the goalmouth, ricocheting off the post and Union goaltender Kris Mayotte...