Word: bucked
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...Notre Dame won three straight singles contests to clinch the match as its No. 3, No. 6, and No. 4 singles players defeated Harvard’s Anderson, Chu, and Mukundan. Anderson led, 3-0, in the first set of her match against the Irish’s Brook Buck, but ultimately fell in the tiebreaker 7-4 and dropped the second set by a 6-0 score. Chu faced a tough opponent in Katie Potts and lost her match, 6-1, 6-2. Notre Dame’s Kelcy Tefft prevailed, 6-3, 6-2, in her match against...
...wished, its relative propriety means it won’t be cancelled again quite yet. The co-chairs and the BauchCom were confident that the group grope would be back next year, when HoCo co-chair Christine Cherella predicted there would be “more bang for the buck...
...excuse for violence," and she accused regimes in Iran and Syria of deliberately stirring up anti-Western sentiment. Aboard Air Force One last Tuesday, President George W. Bush phoned Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, with whom Bush has a close relationship, to stress Washington's solidarity and "buck him up," says a senior Administration official. But Bush aides acknowledge that the cartoon uproar has been an unwelcome distraction at a time when the U.S. is fighting insurgencies in two Muslim countries and trying to build support to curb the nuclear ambitions of a third. "We all hope it calms...
This disappoints the reader, and it is supposed to, for we want to see Jefferson buck every trend regarding slavery and be the revolutionary he was in 1776 in the fight for political independence. But this simply was not the case. Burstein admirably examines the president as an objective historian and not as a love-struck biographer...
...history simply cannot. This does not mean that the humanities and social sciences are unimportant or unnecessary. If the goal is to bring lower-income Americans into the middle class, and to keep American industry competitive and strong, the government is simply getting the most bang for its buck...