Word: frayed
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...Dershowitz says. “A shouting match on TV is occasionally a good thing,” he continues. “People get their news from television, and a professor who’s afraid to get on TV is afraid to get into the fray...
Despite criticism of Berge's candor, the committee has always been part of, not above, the political fray. The Prize, says Lundestad, "is a loudspeaker and a microphone" that has been used to bless peacemakers and to boost their causes - equality in South Africa, freedom in Burma, independence in East Timor. "One cannot say, 'Here's an important process, let's find a name,'" says St?lsett, who is also the Bishop of Oslo. "But it's a bonus if we can send a message...
...having multiplied his real-estate earnings into unprecedented wealth in the 1980s after a sweet government deal helped him launch his private media empire. Sixteen months after he moved into the Prime Minister's office, Berlusconi quietly remains Italy's wealthiest man. But long before Berlusconi joined the political fray, Giovanni Agnelli, the patriarch of the Fiat car dynasty, was a subtler symbol of Italy's unique brand of state-stewarded capitalism. Praised around the world as the man who brought Italian industry into the big leagues in the 1960s and 1970s with mass production of simple but stylish automobiles...
...most significantly, students who apply early action or regular decision frequently inform every college to which they are admitted of their best financial aid offer in order to spark a bidding war. Schools concerned about their yield (the percentage of admitted students who enroll) frequently jump into the fray, substantially increasing candidates’ financial aid offers. Even without playing colleges against each other, regular decision and early action candidates can still compare the offers they receive and incorporate that information into their decision...
...ninth inning and attacked Tom Gamboa, first-base coach of the visiting Kansas City Royals, and began beating him. The Royals immediately cleared the bench and piled on the two men, identified as WILLIAM LIGUE JR., 34, and his 15-year-old son. Security guards entered the fray and dragged the shirtless duo off the field, after which a folded pocket knife was found on the ground. As for motivation, besides utter stupidity, the elder Ligue suggested that he had exchanged words with Gamboa and that the coach had made an obscene gesture, a charge vehemently denied by Gamboa...