Word: contestable
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...judges, the contest came down to the Cookie Monsters’ shrimp tart with tomato basil and roasted vegetables and the Professionals’ mojito-marinade shrimp kebabs, potatoes with garlic and chives, and fresh salad with blueberries, strawberries, and citrus vinaigrette...
...Contest judge and Assistant Dean of Quincy House Mike Rainen devoured the Professionals’ preparation with gusto, and an occasional raised eyebrow from Breslin suggested that a consensus was brewing...
...which would position another prince to succeed as King after Abdullah and Sultan die or relinquish the post. An important factor is seniority in the line of succession, which is restricted to the sons of Ibn Saud. But competence and Byzantine family politics also play a part. The current contest pits influential Interior Minister Prince Nayef, who is known for appeasing the Kingdom's hard-line religious figures for the sake of maintaining their political backing for the regime, against a number of other similarly aging princes. The others to watch are Prince Mithab, minister of municipal and rural affairs...
KELLY CLARKSON, who won the American Idol contest in 2002 and is now on a national concert tour, on her growing popularity since triumphing on national...
...Nagasaki, of cities being reduced to rubble in an instant, provided an odd hope that such terror would never be allowed to happen again. After Hiroshima, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built thousands of nuclear devices, and the threat of nuclear war kept a political and ideological contest within bounds. Buried in silos in the wheat fields of North Dakota, tucked into the torpedo tubes of Soviet submarines parked in the North Atlantic, slung in the bomb bays of B-52s, the American and Soviet nuclear arsenals mutually assured the destruction of both sides if hostilities commenced. The cold...