Word: heeling
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...Harvard secondary, the Achilles’ heel of many a Crimson team, has played erratically this season. Saturday was no exception as the Crimson defensive backs combined for two dropped interceptions and four pass interference penalties and gave up a slew of third-and-long conversions that kept Big Red drives moving. They also gave up three touchdown passes, two of which were jump balls thrown to the smallest receiver on the field (Cornell senior Keith Ferguson, who checks...
...Pataki has his own potential Achilles' heel, left exposed because of his steady leftward drift. Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano, in his third Independent run for the Governor's mansion, spent $30 million winning the roughly 9,000 primary votes it took to beat Pataki for the Independence Party nomination - around $3,000 a vote. He says he is prepared to spend an additional $30 million to $40 million to get elected, aiming especially at Pataki's support in the more conservative upstate counties. In addition to slashing spending to avoid a state budget collapse (a $10 billion deficit is projected...
...goal is to use this blueprint to find the Achilles heel, or weak point, of the parasite and use drugs to attack that," Wirth said...
...Iraq is the Achilles heel of E.U. foreign policy," says Steven Everts of the Centre for European Reform in London. "The European debate has been too reactive: Do you or do you not support a U.S. attack?" Everts argues that instead of responding with horror to each new leaked report of U.S. battle plans, the E.U. should come up with alternatives of its own and inject these into Washington's deliberations...
...piano and howl about the shaking that was going on. He rose, still pounding, and he kicked the piano stool back. It shot across the stage, tumbling, skidding... Steve Allen laughed and threw the stool back, then threw other furniture, and Jerry Lee played some high notes with the heel of his shoe. Then he stopped and looked at the camera sideways again. Neither he nor Steve Allen had ever heard louder applause...