Word: likelies
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Lippert and Markley were hitting their shots and would finish the half with 10 points apiece. It looked like the Crimson (4-3) would sail smoothly to an eventual 74-57 defeat of the Crusaders...
...loved how we started, and I’m proud of how we started,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “It’s not unusual to get a big lead like that and then think that the game is over...
...Meanwhile, as the President gathers lawmakers, chief executives and union heads on Thursday at the White House for a jobs summit, business groups are pushing for an array of tax cuts. The National Federation of Independent Business would like to see a payroll tax holiday. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking for a reduction of the capital-gains tax, renewal of popular research and development and other soon-to-expire business tax breaks and a permanent elimination of the estate tax, among a long wish list of tax provisions. The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, would...
...Instead, Oberstar and House Appropriations Committee chairman Dave Obey have suggested a smaller, Band-Aid program of $100 billion drawn from general Treasury funds, though Oberstar has also suggested using some of the leftover bank-bailout money. He still hasn't heard anything back on either proposal. "It's like shouting out into outer space - nothing's coming back from the other side of the Hill, nothing's coming back from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue," he laments...
...troops to Afghanistan, "I would gladly order every single one of our troops home tomorrow." It was the most emotional moment of his address - but it was a curious sentence, and an unsatisfying speech, defensive and slightly convoluted. Certainly, it was not a classic call to arms: nothing remotely like Shakespeare's Henry V at Agincourt or Winston Churchill during the Blitz, as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer pointed out later...