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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...acknowledgment that promises of change and hope can only get a candidate so far. Ultimately, what undecided voters will be looking at is the bottom line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Sharpens the Message | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...down, while consuming pretty much all of the available oxygen in the water. The bacteria also proliferate wildly, taking over the ecosystem and exacerbating the oxygen depletion. If conditions like strong currents, which are common in summer, prevent oxygen-rich water from the surface from mixing with lower layers, bottom-dwelling animals like lobsters, crabs and flounder in that area either flee or die. Relatively immobile animals such as oysters, clams and worms are particularly susceptible to annihilation. Such deaths take the bottom out of the marine food chain, helping to create sustained dead zones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...candidates and their consultants deserve some of the blame for this political race to the bottom; so do the trivia-obsessed media. But campaigns pander for a reason, and McCain's event in York was a reminder that voters deserve their share of blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Candidates Be Celebrities? | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...wear the LZR or TYR and feel as fast as a dolphin - and don't discount the psychological effect of wearing something high tech. But you are still not likely to catch Phelps, who, it must be said, only wears the bottom half of his new Speedo wonder suit for most races. For any swimmer, it is the more important half to be wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Swimsuits: Winning Medals Too | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...statesman hat. I had a call the other day from a President in Africa asking me to contact a President in Asia to set up a meeting." Then there's his business hat: "I put this unbelievably big deal together. The bottom line was $300 million." How did it happen? "A guy called me and asked me, 'Would you call this person?,' and I said, 'Well, it's not my role or anything I aspire to,' but out of it came this huge deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Ambition of Rick Warren | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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