Word: lapped
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...open Sunday’s session with a 1-2-3 sweep of the 100-yard free, Mills once again brought her team closer in the 200-yard backstroke that followed with a 2:01.94 second-place finish. “I definitely saw people fight through the last lap,” Hart said of her teammates’ resiliency. Senior co-captain Jaclyn Pangilinan, last year’s winner of the 100-yard breaststroke at the HYP meet, brought home a third-place and two fourth-place finishes for her team this year. She touched the wall...
Mitt Romney's mind is a marvel - a calculating, evaluating, inquisitive, all-consuming consulting machine, formed on his CEO-father's lap, trained in Harvard's business and law schools, and perfected while making hundreds of millions in the cutthroat world of private equity investing. There is not a spreadsheet that does not pique his interest, not a bureaucracy he does not itch to streamline, not a widget factory he does not wish to understand...
...person seated in front of me: I am neither a barber nor a dental hygienist, so kindly remove your seat from my lap. My preferred countermove--training my air vent to blow directly onto your head, often agitating a brief flurry of dandruff--doesn't always work as a deterrent...
Families get instructions on how to adjust their children's "sensory diets" to help them function better at home and in school. Christopher Medema, 7, now puts a weighted blanket on his lap when he's doing seatwork at school. The steady pressure meets some of his need for tactile input and helps him focus. His family has learned to accommodate his craving for motion. "He likes doing math flash cards standing on his head," says his dad, Steven...
...Chvez can keep raking in tons of cash without expanding production--even with production declining," says David Mares, an oil-politics expert at the University of California at San Diego. "He's taking advantage of the situation we consumers dropped in his lap." Mares says Chvez has to invest more in his oil industry in the future. Although it also wouldn't hurt if Americans learned to consume less...