Word: bump
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...even assuming that no upsets in conference tournaments would force the committee to invite a higher-ranked school at Colgate’s expense, the bonus points awarded for quality wins would in all likelihood bump the Raiders off the playoff bubble...
...wasn't. On the island roughly the size of Singapore, just a sliver of land was affected. Most of the deaths took place on only two beaches?Patong and its near neighbor Kamala?while some others received not much more than a rude bump. Even at Patong, most of the damage was confined to areas immediately behind the beach. Today, much of the debris has been cleared away or hidden behind high fences, and damaged hotels and businesses have already reopened or plan to do so in the next few months. "The devastation," says O.B. Wetzell, an American resort developer...
...With the numbers given to us at the time, we made the best estimates we could,” Mahan said. “But we’ll have to ask for a slight bump in the allocation...
...every student can count on such decisive action. Meredith's son Adam, 14 (both mother's and son's names have been changed), attends a private boarding school in the English countryside. Classmates repeatedly pick on Adam for being small for his age and a vegetarian; they deliberately bump into him and vandalize his property. Meredith says Adam's school simply pretends there's no problem. "I've made dozens of phone calls but no one ever gets back to me," she says. "It's as if he doesn't exist." School officials did not respond to requests for comment...
...they were unaware that a powerful earthquake off the coast of Indonesia had triggered a tsunami that would kill more than 155,000. The deadly wave felt like little more than a bump to the Chens because tsunamis don’t develop into tall waves until they approach the shore...