Word: necked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only George Bush's camp on the Republican side expresses optimism about the early northeastern contest--and guarded optimism at that. "It will be very close in New Hampshire--neck-and-neck with Reagan. That's good for us, considering where we came from," Judy Butler, assistant field director for the Bush campaign, says. "It's true we're going to have a really good showing (in New Hampshire and Massachusetts), but we don't consider ourselves the front-runner yet," she adds...
Dixon's attempt at a hat-trick was denied when his final shot hit the post. After a slow start which left him second to last in the pack, Dixon staged a miraculous comeback to put him neck and neck with Princeton's Brad Rowe as the two appraoched the finish line. As Dixon strode through the tape, and Rowe dove beneath it, the public address system echoed, "That's Dixon's third...
...active female mounts a passive one, curves the tail under the other's body, strokes the partner's back and neck, joins genital regions, and rides on top for one to five minutes. The active female lizard always has small undeveloped eggs, while the passive female has large pre-ovulatory eggs. But there are cyclic variations in behavior and egg size in these reptiles, and roles reverse; the passive female of one encounter can be the active partner of the next. Says Crews: "We are now trying to determine whether this malelike behavior facilitates reproductive function." Translation...
...there were some startling crosscurrents. At Columbia University, a score of students tore down a placard reading DRAFTED that had been placed by protesters around the neck of a statue of their alma mater. They draped her in a U.S. flag. The draft resisters charged, and the two groups briefly engaged in some pushing and shoving. Students polled...
...coming to regard stocks as good long-term bets. For one thing, at their present depressed values, at least some blue-chip companies are paying dividends of anywhere from 7% to 10%, making them increasingly competitive with top-quality bonds; utility stocks are offering yields of up to 12%, neck and neck with the money-market funds themselves...