Word: butts
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...with tradition. While "Big Green" is a bit awkward, it is certainly more pleasing than the proposed alternative. Dartmouth should just accept that it is not going to have a resonant moniker like "The rambling wreck of Georgia Tech." Give it up, folks, or you may find yourselves the butt of jokes that aren't in good...
...that 30 more pounds would give his groundstrokes. He compensates by overswinging under pressure. Carefully tuned topspin dissolves into desperate flailing when he is faced with consistent, deep, professional offensive strokes. But given any opening, the kid attacks fearlessly, uttering pubescent versions of the Jimmy Connors "I'm kicking butt, Mom, really I am" grunt. His serve is already an explosive weapon. His mobility--though not exceptional--is adequate...
...fought like hell to oppose the move, but at least the Harkness workers still will have a job," Fred Walden, vice president of Local 26, said yesterday, adding, "The Law School really kicked the employees in the butt...
Condominium conversion, when it occurs, seems guaranteed to force an exodus of low- and moderate-income tenants and elderly residents, probably along with many "transients"--students for the most part--who are the butt of numerous attacks from city developers. The study shows they will likely be replaced by higher income owners, for the most part young professionals (attracted by the city's budding high technology industries). They will be single, or, if married, have few children. "That is the definition of gentrification," Councilor David Sullivan--who won his seat with heavy tenant backing--says...
...programs directed by the French government produced too many white elephants, like the supersonic Concorde and the steelmaking complex near Marseille, that look brilliant to a bureaucrat but flop in the marketplace. Admits François de Combret, the top French presidential economic adviser: "A bureaucrat like myself, with his butt in a chair all day long, does not know