Word: kickoff
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...player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three to five days before the kickoff. Alexander Olshanyetsky and Mordechai Halperin of the Jerusalem Center for Impotence and Infertility plan to expand their research to include more players and other sports. But no telling when they will turn to the question on the minds of players' wives: What is the optimum period of abstinence from football...
...political operatives are pretty good at damage control, so he passes from crisis--like the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo--oblivious, and he escapes unscathed," said Barrett at his campaign kickoff. "But he escapes leaving disaster in his wake for the people of Massachusetts...
Third, I have not "left." I continue to serve as Provost, to fulfill all my duties and to speak on the University's behalf--at the campaign kickoff and at other development and alumni events, in Cambridge and across the country. I am working with Kennedy School Dean Albert Carnesale and others to insure a smooth transition at the end of the academic year. Jerry R. Green Provost
...weekend kicks in today at 1 p.m. with the kickoff of the junior varsity football game, an annual battle waged on the Yale practice fields...
...said the kickoff festivities-- which are being coordinated by a team ofplanners--will likely spill over into Saturday...