Word: lone
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Junior Nordic skier Matt Bellizzi, Harvard's lone representative at the NCAA Skiing Championships--held March 8-11 at Jackson, New Hampshire--placed 27th in the 10K Freestyle event and 34th in the 20K Classic race. The performances earned the Crimson 33 team points and a 17th-place finish overall...
...team that would start with one player as the foundation--Steve Martins--would end the season with Martins as it lone torchbearer...
...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Perot has cause to feel proud of Alexander's campaign. The former Tennessee Governor, positioning himself as the lone "outsider" in the race, is waging a Perot-inspired crusade to dismantle large chunks of the Federal Government, which he decries as "the arrogant empire." Alexander would shut down the Education Department, which he ran under President Bush, and would turn its functions and funding back to the states. He would turn back $200 billion in federal programs, including welfare and most of Medicaid, law enforcement and job training. He implores Congress...
...social extremism that had so disturbed him during the 1992 G.O.P. convention had taken control of the party. His candidacy would offer an alternative. "America needs to be governed from the center," he says. Specter offers a mix of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism. He is the party's lone pro-choice candidate and speaks out against government's imposing religious values. Opponents claim that by calling for the removal of the antiabortion plank from the party platform, he is exacerbating old wounds at the expense of the party. Specter claims the opposite: that keeping the provision divides the party...
...German prison, is fighting extradition to Singapore, where he stands accused of forging a Wall Street executive's name on a document used as collateral for a loan to Baring. Says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand: "A lot of people doubt that Leeson was this lone cowboy who just blew this bomb up inside, with nobody knowing what he was doing...