Word: bottomly
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...best. Sticking it out is the preferred course not just of the Commander in Chief but also of many of the top generals who report to him. To them, Iraq remains a fight that can be won--as long as political support for the enterprise doesn't bottom out completely. "I believe in the mission," says Lieut. General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the coalition forces, who ends his second tour of duty in Iraq this month. "It is what it is, and it's not going to lend itself to a timetable...
...Sinai School of Medicine and widely considered the top expert in the field, says: "It's all still speculative. The answer probably lies in multiple factors-a combination of the hygiene hypothesis and environmental and dietary changes-but my sense is that we still have not gotten to the bottom of why this dramatic increase is happening...
...somnolent one, anyway, that blight on the game?has all but vanished. As Australia rose, then soared, so did the notion that Test teams should have a coach to complement the captain in finetuning their performance. Between 1986 and '96, Bob Simpson was crucial in taking Australia from the bottom of the pile to the top; his successors, especially incumbent John Buchanan, have been innovative in keeping them there...
...advanced high-tech and manufacturing companies still have about 400 million illiterate people and high unemployment? In so many aspects of its economy, Luce notes, "India finds itself higher on the ladder than one would expect it to be," yet "most of its population are still standing at the bottom." Many articles and books on India end here, but Luce explains the reasons for India's interminable paradoxes, arguing they are the logical outcomes of illogical polices...
...Yale quarterback Matt Polhemus on the second play after halftime—Harvard ended up turning the ball over.“There were certainly a lot of opportunities to step up, and most times their defense took them away,” Murphy said. “The bottom line is that we had opportunities for plays, and either we did not connect for one reason or another or they made a great play.”THE STREAK ENDSThough Yale’s win over Harvard gave the Bulldogs a share of the Ivy League title, Princeton laid...