Word: gone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tired of her wicked case of cabin fever, Calleja has gone on a "crazy rampage." She saw a $500 flight for a weekend in Paris and snapped up the ticket. "And of course, you need to buy a new outfit for Paris," she says. She has even convinced some friends to go with her. "I just said, 'Screw it - I'm going to go here.' " She is also going out more and spending a bit more on basic staples. "I got tired of being poor," Calleja says. "At some point, you have to get back your sanity...
...tennis players call it "the Luxilon shot," and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal element is its topspin, which can dip the ball crosscourt in short angles so extreme that "the game has gone from linear to parabolic," as ex-pro turned coach Scott McCain recently put it. "It's like ping-pong out there...
...Gettelfinger insists that the union has already made substantial cuts to health-care costs. In less than four years, blue collar retirees have gone from modest co-pay fees and deductibles to footing 25% of the bill for their health care. The new UAW contracts also include reductions in benefits: dental and vision coverage will be dropped, effective July 1. "The UAW has always been willing to sacrifice to help these companies," Gettelfinger says. "When this started, we were on third base before the other stakeholders were even in the ballpark...
...Crimson closed out the 2008 campaign fifth in the Ivy League, having gone 5-9 against conference opponents. Harvard had difficulty dealing with the likes of Yale, Cornell, Penn, and Princeton, and was unable to defeat these Ivy League opponents despite coming close on several occasions. But Harvard easily handled Dartmouth and Columbia, sweeping both matchups over the course of the season...
Just when it seemed like that nothing could have gone right for Harvard, the players began to come together as a team, gelling with each other off the court and passing the ball with confidence...