Word: grounds
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However, Penn faltered against Penn St., 88-61. The Quakers faced the Nittany Lions on neutral ground at the Atlantic City Shootout, but the result was decidedly one-sided. Another top-notch performance by Bowman was the only thing that kept the final score respectable, as he contributed 19 points and seven boards to follow up his monster game at Towson...
Despite the difficulties in achieving a permanent settlement, the 15 months since the cease-fire have seen a transformation in Northern Ireland. Belfast, for years a killing ground, provides some of the most dramatic evidence of change. Bombings, shootings and violence there used to be normal, everyday events, like delivering the milk or walking the dog. Now the streets are quiet, and the British soldiers who once patrolled them in full battle dress are gone. Gone too are the ubiquitous roadblocks and checkpoints. "People are trying to put those things behind them," said Chris McGimpsey, a Protestant councilor...
...supplement the rocket's power with three "gravity assists," first from Venus, which Galileo skimmed around in a "crack-the-whip" maneuver that boosted its velocity and flung it back toward Earth, and then from Earth itself, which it swooped by twice, passing less than 200 miles from the ground before finally picking up sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter...
Skocpol said she thinks there is a lot of common ground shared by the administration and the students...
...think there's all the common ground in the world, because of most of the specific things that were said about the value of the student-run projects and the vitality of student-run public service," she said...