Word: nailed
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...Advocates will be fighting to nail down those commitments, because if they don't, the American pledge could wither. Currently the U.S. government has appropriated only $200 million for next year's contribution to the Global Fund. An Administration spokesman said he considered it "unlikely" that other donors will come up with the $2 billion, and points out that the law doesn't provide "an automatic trigger" for a full billion to the Fund even if they do. But having thrown down the gauntlet, Bush is now in the ring. Says Sharonann Lynch of the advocacy group HealthGAP: "If other...
...Nail that diploma to the wall, file away that transcript and just smile silently, remembering the good times...
...This weather has put the coffin nail in this little town, and Nature just won't let us go in peace." BILL SHEPHERD, on devastation in Pierce City, Mo., which was nearly destroyed by tornadoes last week...
...fetched as this sounds, the fact that paternity justice has devolved into a bitterly divisive gender issue supports Goldberg’s claim. Rather than take the time and procure the evidence necessary to nail the guilty man, the state often just nails any man who is a tenuous match. Clearly, it’s not just “a healthy disrespect for fathers” that is becoming ingrained in our society. It’s also a very unhealthy disrespect...
...Red’s dominant performance scooping up ground balls provided the final nail in the coffin, as Harvard managed to collect only 23 out of 66. Cornell’s success earned it extra possessions and translated into the additional shots that simply overwhelmed the Crimson defense...