Word: bump
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...optional exam would be the best thing to do for students. They can use that to bump their grades up, and those that are bothered by the experience won't have to relive trauma by taking it," said head teaching fellow Lisa A. Buboltz...
...very well be satisfied with Ashcroft, but I think a lot of them are worried about how quickly and cleanly Bush cut his losses with Chavez, and they may want another nominee as insurance. What, they may be thinking, will happen when the Ashcroft nomination hits its first bump in the road and the confirmation runs into trouble? Will Bush just abandon ship...
Clinton won't find it all smiles in her new job. There's a long line of Senators senior to her who want seats on Finance and Appropriations, so she may have to wait for those plums. She may bump hulls with CHARLES SCHUMER, New York's senior Senator, an aggressive press hound back home. She's received a mixed welcome from Republican Senators, who remember her haughty attitude when she was in charge of trying to get health-care reform through Congress. Majority leader TRENT LOTT huffed that...
...Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez is the extras demanded by agent Scott Boras, who counters that these things were hardly "demands" and that, anyway, he didn't make some of them. Whatever--the add-ons to a 12-year, $300 million contract reportedly include an escalator clause that would automatically bump A-Rod's salary over anyone else's; a luxury box at the stadium for the star's entourage; private jet service; a tent at spring training from which to sell A-Rod souvenirs; a private marketing staff and an office at the park. Oh, yes, and a special request...
...points out one goose with a bump on his beak. It makes sense that Little Brook has named the goose Bumpy...