Word: bump
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...were really hoping to turn a corner after the Connecticut game and head in the right direction,” tri-captain Julie Chu said. “I still think that we are heading in the right direction. We’ve just hit a bump in road. It’s especially disappointing when you know you could have had the better of them...
...percent bump for fiscal year 2006 will mark the fourth straight year of slim payout increases that have generally fallen short of the higher-education inflation rate. Payout increases at the beginning of the decade were far higher, topping out at a 37-percent hike...
...unexpected rise in benefits costs necessitated the extra bump, Berman said...
...July had been filled with spikes of violence in Iraq and new disclosures about abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. "We'd try [to change the subject], but even if the President said Iraq once, that's all people would talk about," recalled Rove. Though Kerry had seen no real bump in the polls, voters were viewing him as a more plausible Commander in Chief than they had before, and they were listening more closely to him than before the convention. "We couldn't believe it," says a top campaign official. "We were on defense on Iraq when Kerry had held...
After that road bump up in Hanover, Harvard got back up on its horse and did not lose again until the National Championship...