Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snarky, vicious, glory-thieving place, the world of big-bucks political fund raising. Ostensible grownups can be reduced to screaming toddlers over who gets the credit for bringing in a major donor's gift--and thus gets the inside track for a better seat at the next big soiree. Bring into this piranha tank an attractive, ambitious, wealthy woman who made an almost instant connection with the President and his wife, and the knives start flashing...
...What about the sleek B-2? Ironically, while the B-2 performed well, the success of older aircraft may make it harder for the services to bring costly new planes on line. In the coming decades, the Pentagon plans to spend $300 billion on three new classes of warplanes, including $62.2 billion for a fleet of 339 F-22 fighters. But if U.S. air forces are so good, the thinking goes, why upgrade...
...while increasing costs provide a constant pressure for tuition to increase and bring in more revenue, the small exact amount of that increase seems more a subjective judgment than the product of exact calculation...
...were able to bring a lot more people inthat way, which we couldn't guarantee because ofrandomization," Weinberg-Wolf says. Like Lee'sblocking group, hers has remained close. Sheets ofposterboard containing inside jokes from theirfour years together cover the wall of one of thegroup's suites...
Demonstrating that Harvard did contain championship material, each Crimson player won her match by the score of 3-0 to bring home the Ivy title...