Word: mopped
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Rose, now only 60 yards shy of Harvard's single-season passing yardage record, sat after the third quarter. Freshman quarterback Conor Black, who has solidified his hold on the backup job, threw for 46 yards in mop-up duty...
Rose rushed for 45 yards and a touchdown, including a 17-yard scramble on third-and-15 in the second quarter. Sophomore Brent Chalmers added 51 yards in mop-up duty...
Triple gold medalist Fu Mingxia doesn't expect anyone to remember her. Sure, China's mop-haired diving diva was the youngest gold medalist in Barcelona, at 13, and a double winner in Atlanta. But when she ducked out of the limelight at 18, her whispery voice citing mental exhaustion, the former child prodigy figured her glory days were done. Even today as she trains for Sydney, Fu downplays her talents. "I'm old and a little fat now," jokes the 22-year-old. "I'm yesterday's news...
...devised a system that will make almost any product, anywhere, anytime. Well, at least anything that can be molded--which is just about everything we touch these days. Kirila's Virtual Engineered Composites (VEC) process is a factory in a box. The box can be as small as a mop basin or as big (so far) as a 40-ft. freight container. Plopped down in the middle of Azerbaijan or Arizona or Angola, it could start pushing out toilet seats one day and pipeline sections the next...
...wouldn't know it by last week's market massacre, but Jager is doing a pretty good job so far. He's pushed out a wide array of new products, including an electrostatic mop called the Swiffer and a fabric deodorizer dubbed Febreze that are each on track to rack up some $400 million in sales in their first year. He hasn't been shy about growing through acquisitions either: he's already shelled out $2 billion for high-end pet-food maker Iams, and he recently tried to snatch the pharmaceutical firm Warner-Lambert from Pfizer...