Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Monday's decision by Florida Democrats to abandon their efforts to hold a new primary, in order to get their delegation seated at the national party's August convention, is another blow to Hillary Clinton's attempt to close the small but near-impregnable delegate gap on her rival, Barack Obama. And she's having little more luck in Michigan...
...league playoff game in New York City. Harvard will share the league crown with Cornell and the Big Green, and the Big Red earned the league’s lone NCAA bid in a 64-47 win over Dartmouth yesterday. For Harvard, it was the decisive, crushing blow in a season of incredible expectations in which the Crimson was the odds-on favorite to win the Ivy Championship. Harvard entered the final week of the conference schedule in sole possession of first place in the league, only to drop its last Ivy game against Yale in stunning fashion. Against Dartmouth...
...People at Moody's and Standard & Poor's are used to catching flak when debt markets blow up. Why didn't they see the bankruptcy of California's Orange County coming in 1994? Why did they fail to account for the currency risks brewing in Thailand and Indonesia and South Korea in 1997? And how was it that they were still rating Enron's debt as investment grade four days before the company went belly...
...only were his actions illegal, but they were also treacherous. His constituency’s feeling of betrayal is made all the more potent by his duplicity, and his reputation is all the more tarnished by the lies at its base. Simply put, it comes as a bigger blow to discover that Spitzer was a crooked man wearing an honest man’s mask than if we had known him to be crooked all along. New York is surely weary of sanctimonious politicians who say one thing and do another. Incoming governor David A. Paterson has inherited a difficult...
...magic wand" that touched Telpuk's life came last August, in the form of a suitcase crammed with three quarters of a million dollars. Not that she kept the money - on the contrary, it's the fact that she chose to blow the whistle on its owner rather than seek a bribe to remain silent that made her something of a folk heroine...