Word: foul
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When the Justice Department abruptly changed course last week, reducing the penalty sought to $10 billion, critics cried foul, charging it was a reflection of the Administration's ties to the tobacco industry, including a Justice Department with a handful of high-level political appointees who used to belong to law firms that represented Big Tobacco. "The public has to be on the lookout for clandestine negotiations," says Matthew Myers, a witness in the case and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids...
There was his backhanded pickup and laser throw from foul territory behind third base to close out a key inning in the Ivy Championship Series...
...intangibles that he’s brought to us,” Walsh says of the charismatic senior. “You know? And he’s a character. And amongst everything, he loves the game. He just loves the game. You know, he’s chasing foul balls. He’ll get up and pinch-hit, and the first guy that goes in to replace him, he’s pulling...
Mann, the Crimson’s power-hitting catcher, woke up his teammates with a rocket foul into the stands just beyond the home dugout to lead off the second...
...events of the last two weeks are surprisingly straightforward. A petition for impeachment does not constitute foul play; it is instead a constitutional tool that places a check on the performance of an executive. No one was forced out, no one was coerced, and members were certainly not threatened. Many people chose not to run for a job that requires the investment of their entire life at Harvard, and several of those who considered running for Vice President assumed that Clay Capp, who received an unprecedented 1,500 votes in his campus-wide election, would win. While this...