Word: dashes
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...Whitt will have 17 of those players on his roster, including Rob Ducey, 39, who played for six Major League teams, including the Blue Jays, between 1987 and 2001. "I couldn't win a 100-yard dash," Ducey concedes, "but I can make it from first base to home plate with all my parts intact." Ducey provides the kind of leadership that only a big-league veteran...
...mission and asks for a chart of the course. Leaning back in his seat, feet plonked on what anyone but a mariner would call the dashboard, Cummins jiggles a joystick in the armrest that operates the boat's flaps and fins, opening up the throttle for a 90-min. dash to the target zone...
...translate its abstract ideas to the audience’s level. Michael Moore’s talent as a filmmaker is demonstrating how politics and policy affect the average Joe. Conversely, no apathetic viewer will be swayed by the statistics and wonkish experts Greenwald parades on screen. Without a dash of showmanship, the strains of Greenwald’s sermon will reach only the choir...
...paraphrase Walt Whitman, a U.S. election contains multitudes. The long, drawn-out campaign - the primary season, the spring offensives, the summer punctuated by the scripted drama of the party conventions, the mad dash from Labor Day to the finish line, the debates, the breathless and sometimes inaccurate projections of state-by-state results by TV anchors - add up to a political carnival in which, like a Brueghel painting, there are enough details to satisfy any taste. All elections matter. The U.S. presidential election, because it chooses the leader of the nation whose policies have so much impact on the world...
...first to tell you that he has not had much time since he arrived in Baghdad just over a year ago to think about how he will go out. The proud finisher of 20 marathons, Bremer was a distance runner thrown into a sprint, a mad 13-month dash to try to create a new government and something approaching stability out of the fractious void that Iraq became in the wake of the coalition overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003. If the U.S. occupation of Iraq has proved that Secretary of State Colin Powell was right...