Word: contests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason that many protestors contest primate research so strongly, Gibbons said, is that they do not understand that researchers only use primates when absolutely necessary...
...primary season and George W. Bush miles ahead of his heel nippers, the Ames straw poll has taken on an unnatural significance. Republican candidates want to trip up Bush, and they're happy to spend lots of money to do so. And if they turn up losers, the Ames contest, for all its illegitimacy, may force them...
...songbook. Many consider the Confederate marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
...personal. The local doyen (Kirstie Alley) is ready to kill, really, to ensure that her daughter Becky (Denise Richards) will win over trailer-park cutie Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst). Got all the movie references? Here is a mockumentary (Waiting for Guffman, The Blair Witch Project) about a high school contest (Smile, Election) set among the funny-talking rubes of rural Minnesota (Fargo or every third episode of Mystery Science Theater...
...women's final on Saturday had a look that observers of the men's game found familiar: a taut, defensive contest that tightens leg muscles, turns feet into anchors and transforms a 116-yd. by 72-yd. field into a postage stamp. At their own end, the Americans completely snuffed out the Chinese offense, allowing scoring star Sun Wen precious little room to maneuver. At midfield, Michelle Akers, a 33-year-old orthopedic disaster, made her last World Cup game a memorable one. On defense, she owned the air, hurling herself at anything round that moved--a recklessness that would...