Word: lone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exit the Winthrop House Gate and are instantly drawn to the sounds of Tone-Loc emanating from a white sport utility vehicle in the MAC parking lot. Seeing a party in progress, we approach the large group of guys and a lone female. The guys--who identify thesmelves as members of the D.U. frat--are en route to a night of partying in Cape Cod, but they are clearly wasting no time, enjoying themselves right there on the asphalt. Chips and beverage overflow in the trunk, as the travelers idly but excitingly wait for stragglers to arrive...
Bush, once the lone front runner, is now in a two-front war. He must appeal to home-schooling Evangelicals in Waterloo, Iowa, even as he reaches out to socially moderate soccer moms in Nashua, N.H. He must halt McCain's surge in New Hampshire, but he cannot take victory for granted in Iowa, where being organized counts for more on caucus night than doing well in early polls, and where Forbes is dumping huge sums of money into the most sophisticated campaign organization in state history. "No question," says Iowa G.O.P. chairman Kayne Robinson, "Forbes is going to turn...
Nowak leads the team in scoring, racking up four goals and six assists in seven games. His offensive totals place him fourth overall in the ECAC and will be the conference's lone representative...
...client is a manufacturer of the old school, started over 90 years ago by a lone, hard-working visionary selling products he designed himself. The son of the founder--feisty at 83--still runs the company and eats in the cafeteria with everybody else. The client enjoys a very strong position in the market for their main products, but recognizes a need to focus on high-tec products to defend their market position. They have brought in the PRTM, consultants to technology industry, to find a way for the client to translate its considerable strength into new, high tech businesses...
...that any direct threat to health from genetically modified foods has been found, except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering more nutrients, reducing spoilage and curtailing chemical contamination. Besides, natural doesn't always mean good: cassava, for example, can be toxic if not properly prepared...