Word: bump
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...Gates stressed he would be his own man at Defense: he didn't seek out the Pentagon job, Gates told the senators, and he isn't returning to Washington now just to "be a bump on a log." "I don't owe anybody anything," he declared. Already, Gates seems to be distancing himself from the White House contention that Iraq was the central front in the war on terror. Iraq is "an important front," Gates conceded, but not the only one; the U.S. faces a "dispersed threat" from other parts of the world...
...Dean Gilbert. “I don’t know if they’re used to that.”IN OTHER ACTIONEven though the Crimson extended its nation-best winning streak to eight games in sweeping a Top 10 squad, don’t expect a bump in the new rankings, as all the top teams took care of business this weekend. No. 1 Mercyhurst took two games from Princeton, the second victory a 1-0 overtime nail-biter on Saturday, in which the Lakers outshot the Tigers, 48-9. In the ECAC, St. Lawrence, Clarkson...
...Precision Intervention Technique - is essentially what Bullitt was trying to pull off when he hit the black Charger in the left-rear door. If you bump another car in just the right spot, the car will spin and come safely to a stop. That's the theory, anyhow, and Scott's supervisor gave the go ahead to "take...
...media tends to focus on areas of conflict, and they tend to create an image of conflict, but we had a very smooth passage.”This is not to say that the whole of the operation has gone quite so smoothly. One notable bump occurred when the Syrian government put a hold on the participation of Osama al Nouri, a member of the Abraham Path’s initial leadership team.This setback appears to have been more than purely administrative. According to an online list of Path Initiative leaders, al Nouri’s “knowledge...
...sweet feed to Brine—on the team’s next score, tallied on the power play with 1:27 left in the period. That goal gave Harvard a comfortable 2-0 lead that stood up the rest of the way. Chu assisted on both goals to bump her season total to 11.The lowlight for the Crimson was the 11 penalties it committed, but fortunately its penalty kill was up to the challenge, erasing all of the Golden Knights’ extra-skater opportunities without incident. “I think our penalty kill was great...