Word: contestant
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...award as prestigious and important because of the attention it brings, although some critics argue that larger publishers have an advantage because of their proximity to the National Book Foundation (headquartered, like nearly every publisher mentioned here, in New York City) and their financial ability to pay the contest's entry fees. In addition to the fee, publishers must agree to contribute $1,000 to a promotion campaign if the book becomes a finalist, purchase medallions to affix to finalist and winning books, and get authors to agree to participate in the foundation's website-related publicity...
...winner of that contest remains to be seen, but what's clear now is that the U.S. finally has a President who understands the fierce urgency of climate change. "Delay is no longer an option," Obama said. "Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high. The consequences, too serious...
...play, and it had lost after two overtime periods in the round of penalty kicks. The Crimson had come within two made PKs of advancing to the next round of the tournament. Its season had come down to a matter of inches and guesses, to the do-or-die contest that decides things when 110 minutes of play can’t. And Harvard came up short...
...Feud.” I suppressed these concerns and entered practice mode, watching syndicated episodes of the game show with my teammates nightly for two weeks. Although I’d watched the show before, I’d never realized it was basically a contest in mediocrity—teams compete to guess the most frequent responses to inane questions previously posed to 100 average Americans. For example, if asked “What’s a cure for the hiccups,” teams try to respond not with the most accurate or effective answer...
...attended the University of Indiana, where he played rugby and bought a nightclub that he named Motley's. He says he had to shut down the bar when authorities discovered that the winner of an in-house wet T-shirt contest was a 16-year-old girl on probation for prostitution...