Word: granted
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Harvard's No. 4 player, sophomore Rishaad Bilimoria, also faced the oldest player currently competing at the collegiate level, 31 year-old Diplomat Patrick Grant. In this case, older and wiser proved to be a little too old and wise--Bilimoria handily defeated Grant 3-0, leaving the old man literally sprawled on the ground afterwards and gasping...
...testifying has proved profitable for King. Through his work on one case, a foundation which had collected $3.5 million worth of electoral data donated the information to the Government Department Data Center followed by a grant from the National Science Foundation...
...initial phase of the study, which was conducted with a $28 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hundreds of doctors and nurses in five major teaching hospitals cooperated in observing 4,301 desperately ill patients. Among their findings...
...word usually associated with Houston or her music. "Safe" and "homogenized" are, though not always fairly. She has a towering, dynamic voice, but when she sings material that's too slight for her skills (such as Love Is a Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million at the box office...
...Terry McMillan's popular novel about the lives of four black women. The sound track, containing three numbers by Houston, has just arrived in the stores and is already racking up hefty sales. In January Houston starts shooting The Preacher's Wife, a remake of the 1947 Cary Grant--Loretta Young comedy The Bishop's Wife, co-starring Denzel Washington, and she's at work on a gospel sound track for the film. Meanwhile, in search of projects to produce as well as star in, Houston has signed a development deal with Disney. Her first acquisition: the rights...