Word: fight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...intervening year that brought a brutal nomination fight, abundant scandal, and total financial collapse, I’m afraid I lost my sense of humor. The notorious Paris Hilton ad is less witty when we start worrying if it was supposed to tap into racism. McCain’s humble acknowledgement that “the issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should” is no longer cute as the investment banks of Wall Street tumble around us. And after his vice-presidential choice was reduced to incoherence by Katie...
...common in his novels, Roth writes autobiographically: Marcus is a young Jewish man from Newark, N.J., with a formidable intellect and an equally formidable anxiety. This anxiety first takes hold when his father transforms from a nurturing role model and friend into a fear-ridden monster. Fight after fight leads Marcus to relocate to the town of Winesburg, Ohio, and a college of the same name, in 1951. And here the anxieties only compound: Marcus buries himself in work, falls in love, fights with both his roommates and the college’s faculty, and in so doing pushes himself...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...
British forecaster EvaluatePharma says Roche is on track to take over as Big Pharma's top dog by 2014, up from No. 5 today. But it won't get there without a fight. Crosstown rival Novartis is also revamping how it does R&D and holds a 13% stake in Alnylam. U.K. concern GlaxoSmithKline already underwent its own re-engineering, and the results are evident. In 2000 its pipeline had two major prospects; now, stocked with 34 late-phase drugs on the horizon, it appears to be one of the industry's healthiest...
...very strong here, slamming Obama for not supporting the surge. But Obama's litany of things McCain had gotten wrong ("You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators ...") was devastating. And his bottom line - that the war in Iraq had been a diversion from the real fight against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan - made far more sense...