Word: heaps
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...professional tennis season, not his game. (Two days later, tendinitis in his knee forced him to withdraw from the event.) "The Tour is very tough because the season is too long in my opinion," he told TIME as he melted four squares of butter into a steaming heap of plain pasta. (A portion of salmon waited to one side). "Next year is going to be very difficult for me because I have had such a tough season already...
When Congress first started looking at an economic stimulus package last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was quick to lay out three important guiding principles: that the provisions be "timely, temporary and targeted." "If we heap too much on top of the package, it will then take us deeply into debt," she warned in a speech on the House floor on Jan. 29, 2008. But now, as Congress gears up to craft a mammoth stimulus package that will dwarf last year's $170 billion bill, those requirements don't seem to be all that binding. (See a bailout report card...
...different story is drawing to a close: one that began with Bush standing defiantly atop a heap of rubble at ground zero and started its downward spiral when he stood before an ill-advised banner reading mission accomplished. At home, the pelting of the President led to more merriment than anger. Thus the plight of his Administration in its final days: unpopular at home and unloved even by those for whom it expended American blood and treasure to free from tyranny...
...upset. School children would lose a quality backdrop for photographs. Jerry Bruckheimer would no longer have the archetypical Washington aerial shot needed before the president decides to send in an elite team, always manned by Nicholas Cage, to kill someone. And let’s not forget the mountainous heap of rubble. The consequences of my actions, I would estimate to cost the taxpayers around $500 million, and I of course would go to jail...
...minimizing our mistakes and turnovers, and trying to capitalize on our opponents’ mistakes.”Harvard will take the ice tonight in Durham with one simple goal in mind-to break its losing streak and start the journey back to the top of the national heap.“It’s going to be a key game for us. We have a few injuries, so a few of the players have stepped up,” Brine said. “We have a lot to prove, not only with UNH, but in our season...