Word: meter
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...sharpshooter when his firm, Texas Utilities, won a bidding war for assets of the British power company the Energy Group in 1998. A respected veteran energy executive, CEO Nye anted up $7.6 billion to win the deal. Soon after, a cartoon in the British press depicted a Texas Utilities meter reader ringing a doorbell--dressed as a cowboy...
Junior Renee Paradise and sophomore Anne Osmun finished one-two in both the one- and three-meter diving contests, with Paradise placing first in each...
While the duo distanced itself from the opposition in the one-meter, the tandem blew the competition out of the water in the three-meter, with Paradise winning by 13.80 points over Osmun, who finished 40.35 points ahead of the third-best diver...
...anything from a log to a boat, and swear it is evidence of the outsize serpent. And then there's that postcard: ubiquitous and eye-catching, of a band of U.S. service members purportedly stationed in the area in the early 1970s, staggering under the weight of an eight-meter-long, silvery, eellike fish. Locals swear it's genuine, and say all of the men in the photo met with messy ends. One oft told story holds that the fish itself disappeared on its way to America for scientific study...
...lines rather than draw them in. Over this he adds layers of slate-gray watercolor for tone and depth. Then, amidst this near-monochrome world, at sparingly particular moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood. It's a transcendent effect. The meter of the poem comes from the layout. Most pages are diptychs, with both sides of the book working as individual panels that form a larger image. Never one to dull the eye, Drooker occasionally breaks these up into smaller panels, most noticeably as the woman gets lost in the confinement...