Word: controllable
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...positive note for the Crimson, Harvard did keep Cornell’s post game under control...
...many of you know what ‘Humanae Vitae’ is?” Cahill asked, referring to Pope Paul VI’s 1968 letter affirming traditional Catholic teachings against birth control...
...made a career out of maintaining control over his emotions, Woods' apology seemed refreshingly wobbly. The nervous man at the mike was a Tiger Woods many people had never seen before. There was a catch in his voice, and his delivery was tense. The fact that Woods is not a fluent public speaker probably worked in his favor. If sentences like "I'm embarrassed. That I have put you. In this position," sounded a little Terminator-esque, they could be forgiven, given the circumstances. (The setting, with a weird blue "magic show" velvet curtain didn't help the awkwardness either...
...value of its remaining U.S. assets. Dumping Treasuries would also undermine the American economy, further dampening the market for Chinese exports. So even as the U.S. and China find a growing number of issues over which to argue, their economic interdependence helps keep the disagreements from spiraling out of control...
...casualty in raising the technical precision of the sport is the spontaneity that makes sports exciting. Athletes at this level live on the edge of control and chaos, and it's the collective wow of moments when they butt themselves up against that line that take our breath away and keep bringing us back to watch. "It's important for any sport to continue to raise the bar and move forward," Paul Wylie, a 1992 silver medalist, told me after the men's short programs. "I have to admit, as a performer who did two triple Axels in my program...