Word: frayed
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...other media outlets have stepped in to fill it. Just three days after Oprah's announcement, the Today show said it would start a monthly club of its own. USA Today and Live with Regis and Kelly soon followed, and last week Good Morning America jumped into the literary fray, announcing its first title, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Though all tout Winfrey as the book-club queen, each media outlet has tried hard to distinguish itself from her--and from one another. --By Harriet Barovick...
Gradually all four classses would enter the fray, until the ring broke down from its own weight and speed...
...Smidt, the Danish chief of the Commission bureaucracy on fisheries and a strong supporter of the plans, was dismissed, prompting charges that he was forced out for opposing any changes. Then E.U. transport and energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio, a Spanish conservative with close ties to Aznar, entered the fray. In a letter leaked to the press the day Fischler introduced the proposed reforms, de Palacio described the plan as "provocative" and "brutal." For weeks Prodi had to fend off claims that his commissioners were acting in the interests of their national governments rather than the E.U. as a whole...
...battle took shape in the environment that soldiers like least, in and around pinched alleys and houses, with ample hiding places and sniper positions. Inevitably, civilians were caught in the fray. Awad Masarweh, a 49-year-old laborer who works in Jenin's vegetable market, took shelter in his house on the edge of the camp near the U.N. Relief and Works Agency's school, on the side of the camp through which the 5th Brigade advanced. At the end of the first day, says Masarweh, there were 90 others in his home, which Palestinians deemed to be among...
...England region alone is home to three of the nation’s top 16 teams—Harvard, Brown and Tufts—but due to guidelines set by the UPA only one of these teams will be given the opportunity to step into the tournament fray...