Word: mucking
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...ASPIRIN EFFECT Popping an aspirin each day to ward off a heart attack? Don't be so sure it will work. Aspirin should reduce the tendency of platelets to stick together and muck up arterial walls, but a provocative new finding suggests that high cholesterol levels may interfere with that. In 60% of patients with high cholesterol, aspirin had no effect on platelets, and is therefore unlikely to help the heart...
...legal battle looked to move ahead on multiple tracks: the Gore camp's contest of the results in the state courts, and the Bush camp's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court does not traditionally like to muck around in state matters, much less presidential elections. But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline? Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors...
What should Gore do? There must be fierce injured pride at work in his calculations--that, and a sensible fear that bringing Clinton in would stir up the old muck. Gore was more profoundly offended by the Lewinsky business than anyone would have thought that day in December 1998 when, at the defiant Rose Garden rally, he succumbed to his exaggeration addiction once again and declared Clinton to be one of the greatest American Presidents...
...sooo about to lose my temper. If I get ONE more "Re: Class Marshal" E-mail, I'm going to hold a sit-in protest (we can hold it in the Discovery Channel Store! That way we can play with the Moon Muck, Dinosaur Excavation sets, and the Spell Charming kits!). Every time I open my e-mail box, I get another annoying, sleazy "vote for me" request. For example...
...woman jumped from the platform and cleared the muck from her cheeks, revealing elaborate tigress facepaint above her red sequined tanktop...