Word: blows
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...final varsity cuts, and had to spend the year playing for the Crimson JV. "It about wiped me out," Duncan says. "I considered transferring after that year if I could play--basketball's too important to me to go to school and not play. That was a tremendous blow--that really hurt...
ABOUT HALFWAY through the book McConnell begins his excruciatingly detailed description of the three days preceding the doomed launch. Unfortunately, this blow-by-blow account of the accident is ??? engaging than the shuttle's shadowy history...
Vicki is the first to hear the train whistle blow. "The train! The train is coming!" she shouts...
...much of last year, prices are rising at a 545% annual rate in Brazil, the highest level ever for a country that was notorious for its triple-digit inflation earlier in the 1980s. As prices have leaped, interest rates have surged to more than 700%, dealing a devastating blow to business. Economists predict that Brazil's real growth rate will be cut in half this year, to less than 4%. The trade surplus, which provides the only cash the country has for paying interest, has dwindled from an average of $1 billion a month throughout much of last year...
Cuomo told the NRC Tuesday that the notion of ignoring state objections "suggests a policy that would be unconstitutional, a blatant disregarding of the need for evacuation, a repudiation of the president, a contradiction of the history of this commission...and a further blow to your already diminished credibility...