Word: mucked
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...Princeton game, played in a rainy, muddy muck, was the closest Harvard came to losing in Ivy play that year. Giampaolo went 4-for-4 that day and his 43-yarder, a low line drive that just barely cleared the uprights, proved the difference maker in the game...
...quest to be the quintessential son, employee and sweetheart. But alas, they are lost among an irritating and unnecessary interrogation that takes place between our hero and two imaginary cops. This surreal exchange serves no point other than to throw in some random symbolism (remember, "conversation follows") and muck up the plot...
...demand are calibrated, inflation is checked, growth steady, the workforce fully employed and the stock market bullish. For the moment, the U.S. may be that perfect economy, and that means the greatest challenge for Larry Summers, 44, the new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, will be not to muck things...
...looks as though a bomb in a drying machine went off in the Adams House Pool. A broad swath of dirt and trash separates the stage from the audience. In the muck you can spot ruined cardboard boxes and a half-buried rifle. Ancient shirts and shredded pants are strung up about the theatre and lie in heaps at the back of the stage. A rickety table looks ready to collapse under the iron wielded by a young woman in a stained housedress...
...Crosby, co-author of the indispensable Windows 98 Bible, later said the registry, a humongous file that helps initialize programs, is often where problems arise. "When it's corrupt, it's almost impossible to repair," he said, noting that hardly anyone in the support world will muck around with it--better to reinstall Windows. Which was what the CompUSA support guy taught me how to do, showing me an easy way to make a Win98 boot disc. Ten minutes and $25 later, I was well on my way to fixing my machine. Someone still needs to fix Micron's software...