Word: coin
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...game offered supporters and critics alike a look of the NCCA's new overtime rule, which gives each team a chance to score in a non-sudden death, untimed overtime session. The Lions won the coin toss and scored on 12-yard touchdown pass to senior wide-out David Ramirez...
...attention, either, that his standout successes have come when he hits singles and doubles, and that swinging for the fence makes him strike out. Far and away his biggest achievement has been slashing the deficit while spurring the economy--and realizing that they were two sides of the same coin. He had been elected partly on promises of a middle-class tax cut and a major expansion of "investments" in job training and education. Even before Inauguration, advisers gave him the bad news: the deficit was headed for $360 billion a year or more, which would leave no money...
Brennan succeeded by refining ideas. Those are the real coin of influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men in American politics is the late Leo Strauss, the German emigre political philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s. His distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage...
...government," she says. "There was no one in Washington for these folks, like General Motors had. That was seed No. 1 for the Children's Defense Fund." In the 1970s, Edelman helped defeat a proposal to turn Head Start funding over to the states. Today, with devolution again the coin of the realm, Edelman, a child of the segregated South, remains deeply skeptical that all states will voluntarily care for their neediest citizens. "Where you can see a general need everywhere," she contends, "you try to have a national solution...
...days when the post and poetry mattered) had been found guilty of plagiarism, it would be an interesting cultural scandal. To wear the valor decorations, as Boorda did, amounted to a kind of moral plagiarism--a theft of other men's honor, and therefore a debasing of the coin rewarding their courage...