Word: defaulting
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...could wait--sit in his impregnable underground German-engineered fortress and wait while the Americans trotted out images of the Vietnam quagmire and became increasingly disillusioned as the bodybags came home. Many said he could do just what Ho Chi Minh had done--wait for a win by default as the American people grew disgusted with the Gulf War. A ground war simply could not be the right answer...
...year and a half ago, The New York Times Magazine claimed that law was becoming the standard default profession for intelligent, non-science oriented Americans unable to decide upon their occupations after finishing college. This campus provides no evidence to the contrary. Look around and count. If your friends include upperclass students not concentrating in natural sciences, they probably include many on the law school track...
Adrian Ezra: All-Ivy and Rookie of the Year...The freshman immediately monopolized the fifth seed position to post an undefeated record in regular season dual matches...His only tournament "defeat" of the season came when a separated shoulder and fractured nose forced him to default in the semi-final round of the USSRA championships...
...invention of supply-side economics, most of the slick idea packagers in American life have been conservatives who view taxes with the horror that Carry Nation once reserved for saloons. Harvard political economist Robert Reich is the rare exception, a glib and unrepentant liberal who has become -- almost by default -- the John Kenneth Galbraith of the baby- boom generation. The publication of Reich's new economic synthesis, The Work of Nations, comes in the midst of a Republican recession with record budget and troubling trade deficits. But rather than indulging in hand wringing and partisan I-told-you-sos, Reich...
Zachary Cooper (H) d. Jason Pace (Y), default...