Word: championed
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...sounds of ABBA, Vanessa Mae, and Phantom of the Opera filled the Bright Hockey Center as champion figure skaters dazzled and twirled at the 39th “An Evening with Champions” performances on Friday and Saturday...
This year’s event featured skaters of all ages, from the 7-year-old Annabelle Morozov to 2008 World Junior Champion Adam Rippon to Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, Olympic gold medalists in 1964 and 1968. Harvard’s Figure Skating Club also skated a short segment...
Martin paused to focus on her blow-drying, and Mary Champion - whose hair was being blown - took over. "McCain's not out here worrying about the high gas prices and high grocery prices. When he said the economy's strong ..." Champion seemed too irritated to finish the thought...
...efforts to squelch plucky little democracies on its doorstep. McCain urges that the U.S. respond by doing whatever it can to speed Ukraine's accession to membership in NATO. But Ukrainian democracy has a way of muddying the picture. On Wednesday, President Viktor Yushchenko, a strong U.S. ally and champion of NATO membership, called a snap parliamentary election, following the collapse of his ruling coalition last month. Questions of the country's future relationship with Russia and the West remain contested in Ukraine's political maneuvering, but it was not manipulation on the part of Moscow that brought down...
...This trend might itself be aided by the changes to the landscape of college football. Last year’s tumultuous season in Division I-A, which saw the first two-loss national champion in the BCS era, has been partially blamed on nationwide scholarship reductions that made powerhouse programs like Alabama, Notre Dame, and Michigan less able to stockpile talented players, as they had in the past. The resulting trickle-down effect of talent has meant that upsets are more likely within Division I-A, as well as in matchups between Division I-A and I-AA squads...