Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, it has covered such topics as MMX technology, online banking, what to do when Microsoft Word eats your paper and my ongoing bout with repetitive strain injury...
...haiku competition is on Friday afternoon. I lead off with a favorite: "Eyes locked. Soul kissing./ Exchanging tongues. I awake/ Singing in Spanish." I win the match. Then I win the bout and advance to the next round. Poet after poet takes the mike. Haikus float by like snowflakes--lovely and fleeting, hard to hold onto. I win my second bout, my third, and suddenly it's the final, and I'm still in. My opponent is D.J. Renegade, a wonderful poet from D.C. Best 9 out of 17 will win the title. He offers social consciousness. I counter with...
...still have a chance for glory in the team competition. In our first bout we had faced Detroit and Salt Lake City. After an intense show, with poems on topics ranging from racism to date rape, a Detroit poet rocked the room with a sharp, stylized jazz piece, pushing her team ahead by 0.3. But my teammate Jerry pulled out a powerhouse finale about his cousin's death, and we skated into first place by a scant 0.1. We also won the next two nights, moving into the Final Four with Dallas, Cleveland and New York...
BILL GATES Judge orders he be deposed in public. At last: a World Wrestling Federation bout for geeks...
This is very different from my previous job experience. A writer works alone, even if he or she is physically in an office filled with other people. Among journalists, an occasional bout of dyspepsia or misanthropy is not merely tolerated but expected. A freelance journalist working at home, meanwhile, can spend days, months, years broody and unshaven (or, he sometimes begins to feel, actually dead), and no one will care. As it happens, shaving is not a high priority at the company where I work. But broodiness is acceptable only among the software developers, who are the equivalent of writers...