Word: flings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first panelist, a member of the Palestinian parliament from Gaza, began with a shrug. "We've made all these arguments before," he said, speaking mournfully. He didn't expect much different from the next President than what Palestinians had gotten from Bill Clinton or George W. Bush-a belated fling at trying to "solve" the Middle East. "Why do they always wait till their last year in office?" he asked, seeming too weary for fury. The next speaker, from Indonesia, wasn't very angry either. He hoped the next President would emphasize soft power rather than military force. The final...
...world’s premier concert saxophonist, I brace myself for the inevitable “and.” Sure enough, he also tutors abused poodles in ASL twice a week. Braced by years as Student Body President and Literary Magazine Editor and Volleyball Team Captain, Harvard students fling themselves exuberantly into scores of extracurricular pursuits. Even someone who used to be only an Olympic Gymnast frequently arrives and decides she should try her hand at leading sustainability fieldtrips for urban teenagers. Seldom does a student define herself by one organization alone. Appended to every Facebook profile...
...smarter, Wal-Mart's U.S. organization is experiencing a gravitational shift. Wal-Mart has always been run from Bentonville, the defiantly hick-town global home office in Benton County, Ark. Each Tuesday, for decades, an armada of planes would fling regional bosses to the far parts of the empire. They would return Friday and report Saturday morning at the big weekly meeting that has been held since Mr. Sam was in charge. Numbers would be counted; plans would be made; orders would be cut. In the field, store managers wouldn't change their socks unless the home office gave...
...Easier said than done. To get home after they leave the meeting, the afflicted must run Macau's gauntlet of gambling resorts, their mesmerizing neon and ritzy, come-hither ambiance carefully calculated to encourage a fling at the tables. Temptation seems to be everywhere. Since the city began issuing new gaming licenses five years ago, the number of casinos has more than doubled to 27, boosting tourism and investment and revitalizing Macau's economy (the city's gaming industry took in $6.95 billion last year, vaulting Macau past Las Vegas as the city with the most total annual wagering revenue...
...sopping wet and shivering coxswain is apt to be a happy one.Why? Only gold medal-winning coxswains are rewarded with ceremonious flops into the waters of the race course. The tradition of collegiate rowing calls for it: after winning a championship race, oarsmen team up to victoriously fling their coxswain off the winner’s dock and into the waters below. “After Sprints last year, we got to throw [varsity coxswain] Jess [Hoy] in,” says senior heavyweight varsity stroke George Kitovitz. “Then we threw [captain] Joe Medioli in there just...