Word: boast
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ensure he'd have the resources to make good on that boast, Venter joined hands with global technology giant Perkin-Elmer, forming a new company called Celera, which took its name from the middle of the word accelerate. The Celera-backed Venter and the NIH-backed Collins briefly explored collaborating, but those efforts fell through, and over the next two years the two camps worked feverishly, occasionally volleying in the press over whose method was better or whose intentions were purer. Collins sniffed at Venter's plans to create a genome database whose basic map he would make available...
...slightly absurd experiment known as the 2008 Nevada caucuses, Hillary Rodham Clinton had a lot of the tactical disadvantages. Her main opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama, could boast the coveted endorsement of the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union. Caucus organizers set up special precincts on the Las Vegas Strip designed to make it easier for those union members who worked Saturday to cast their votes. And John Edwards, though trailing in the race for the nomination, threatened to siphon support away from Clinton because of his populist appeal to working class Democrats. Those disadvantages were substantial...
...days since his defeat in the Iowa caucuses, Romney has mostly refrained from such confident predictions or prescriptions. Sticking with his newly prominent Olympics metaphor, he's told crowds and correspondents, "We're going to get the gold - or maybe the silver." His early-evening boast could be a sign of renewed confidence, or a sign that the campaign has determined that confidence is what the people want. With Mitt Romney's campaign, it's hard to tell...
...ECAC) certainly wasn't sitting on cloud nine. Hindered by numerous penalties, the Crimson watched St. Cloud State float by with a victory after converting on two power plays and slamming in two insurance goals to seal a 4-1 win. Although the Huskies, who boast a top-10 power play, took seven of their 10 first-period shots with a man advantage, both sides remained scoreless through the first period.St. Cloud State finally found the net late in the second, on a power-play tally from Ryan Lasch with 1:34 left in the frame. Senior Jon Pelle tied...
...parts: head (Romney) versus heart (Huckabee). Will most of the people who show up on caucus night be "heart" people - the loosely organized homeschoolers and evangelicals to whom Huckabee owes his front-runner status? Or will they be "head" people, precisely targeted and courted by the Romney campaign? (Staffers boast of having made over 36,000 phone calls to supporters in the past two days...