Word: exaction
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...Brown’s Sean Morey is holding things down for the Cardinals special teams. He got a Pro Bowl selection this past season as a “special teamer.” In 2007, he also got a few receptions at wideout—eight, to be exact, for 131 yards.Fellow Bear Paul Raymond just got signed as a wide receiver for the Jets in January, so if Pizzotti gets any snaps, he can look for his former rival downfield.Prinecton’s Jonathan Drekker is listed on the Steelers active roster, but he doesn?...
...song ends, and it’s all smiles once again as the team critiques each other’s steps. It’s a careful, exact process, an optimal blend of serious assessment and light-hearted banter. And once everything has been said, another song begins...
Though there's evidence that Peruggia tried repeatedly to sell the picture, he always insisted that his only motive in stealing Mona Lisa was to return it in glory to Italy and to exact revenge for Napoleon's massive theft of artworks all across Europe. One problem: Mona Lisa had never been part of the Napoleonic plunder. Though Leonardo had begun the painting in Florence in 1503, he took it with him to France 13 years later when he resettled at the court of the French king François I. After his death there in 1519, the painting passed...
There is an illogic here. If the incentives for piracy are economic, then a decreased likelihood of booty ought to curtail it. Yet no one seems to expect this to happen. Papers relay the boasts of pirates that they will exact "revenge" on Americans. How so? On whose behalf? Such solidarity is less typical of entrepreneurs than it is of terrorists and guerrillas. When Phillips' captors ran out of fuel, they radioed other pirate-held ships for help. There is talk of pirate dens on and near the Somali coasts: Harardhere, Eyl, Boosaaso. "Den" is a quaint, Peter...
...build a career on their talent, even tried to. He got stalled; she got rejected. But the same things that barred them from entering showbiz - upbringing, luck, family duty and, in this TV-driven world, looks - are what delivered them eventually to fame's main square. They had the exact qualities the reality industry knows how to package. As Cowell said to Boyle, in what may have been the most honest comment in the whole program, "I knew the minute you walked out on that stage we were going to hear something extraordinary...