Word: catapulting
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...This is false. Obama has the real-world experience and commitment to practical policymaking to catapult his growing campaign to a successful presidency. Far more importantly, however, our preoccupation with these questions has distracted us from the bigger and less tangible crisis that we face today: as the Bush administration continues its seventh year and the Iraq war its fourth, the country has lost faith in its government. Increasingly, Americans feel that real power rests not with the citizens but with the rich and well-connected. We live in an age when Jack Abramoff can buy influence on Capitol Hill...
...burgeoning international interest in sepak takraw won't catapult their players into the stratospheric income brackets of a Thierry Henry or Kobe Bryant, but it could turn them into decently paid professionals. At present, a top player in the Thai league, the sport's most developed, will earn a rough maximum of $15,000 for a four-month season. A true god of the game like Thai veteran Suebsak Phunsueb-considered sepak takraw's top player for the past several years-might be able to supplement that with advertisements and media work, but he's still no Beckham...
...space of a two-and-a-half minute trailer for his 2006 film “Night in the Museum,” actor Ben Stiller contends with an agitated T-Rex skeleton, a belching sea beast, a flaming projectile launched from a diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns. But will he be able to deal with the barbs offered up by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals? The world will soon find out. Stiller will receive the Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year (MOY) award for 2007, the group announced Monday...
...space of a two-and-a-half minute trailer for his 2006 film “Night in the Museum,” actor Ben Stiller contends with an agitated T-Rex skeleton, a belching sea beast, a flaming projectile launched from a diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns...
Hadfield’s second-place finish last night echoed his previous UC defeat. Last year, Hadfield and then-presidential contender Magnus D. Grimeland ’07, snagged a surprise second-place finish, but the momentum was not enough to catapult him to victory in this election...