Word: homestretch
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...members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will meet in Copenhagen to decide the host city for the 2016 Summer Games. Officials from Chicago, which is competing against Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo for the Olympic prize, are working feverishly to perfect their pitch down the homestretch. The Chicago delegation just returned from Africa, where it made a presentation to the Olympic executives of that continent. President Obama himself sent a video message, asking the Africans for their vote...
...show that we could win without him really boosted our confidence,” co-captain Luke Sager said. While this nonconference victory may not have an impact on the Ancient Eight championship race, it has nonetheless instilled confidence back into the players as Harvard enters the homestretch of the season. “[Dartmouth] was a game that we should’ve won,” freshman goalie Austin Harms said. “But you should never take it apart on yourself. We put the loss behind us and never looked back...
...pictures of Barack Obama's homestretch here...
...would be all too easy to have missed the communiqué released Oct. 19 by the Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party. After all, the world's newspapers are dominated by the homestretch of the U.S. presidential election, the ongoing global financial crisis and other momentous events. But the blandly titled "Decision on Major Issues Concerning the Advancement of Rural Reform and Development" will be studied by historians when the markets' latest gyrations and Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday Night Live are long forgotten. Behind the document's clunky sentences constructed from boilerplate Party phraseology are changes...
...anecdote has fostered a mix-and-match parlor game. Nixon: first-rate mind, second-class temperament. Reagan: second-rate mind, first-class temperament. Perhaps only Lincoln tops the class in both categories. But as we go down the homestretch in this presidential election, voters seem to be making up their minds as much by evaluating the dispositions of the candidates as their position papers. Voting for President is the most intimate vote we ever make; we're deciding whom we want in our living room for the next four years...