Word: nipping
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...navigator took us to Nagasaki. We had gotten a report that the area was clear, but we noticed undercast clouds. By this time, we'd used almost an hour's gas at the rendezvous point, and the engineer was really sweating it. It was going to be nip and tuck. I went up to Sweeney and said, "We're going to be able to make one run on this target-if we're lucky." I told him to be prepared to use radar. This was in contradiction with orders we'd received that prohibited us from bombing without a visual...
...takes two slugs in the chest, Annie is plunged into two surefire plots: a whodunit and a satirical fashion-world exposé. Baker is the editor of Britain's Cosmopolitan, so she knows whereof she writes--and she actually writes well. Annie and her colleagues have real inner demons to nip at the heels of their Manolos. By the end of Fashion Victim, you may even believe that models have feelings...
...Jersey is mulling a plan to devote $380 million to a research facility and grants. In Wisconsin, where in 1998 James Thomson became the first scientist to cultivate human embryonic stem cells, Governor Jim Doyle wants $375 million for an institute. And Illinois is considering a "nip and tuck" law that would impose a 6% tax on elective medical procedures like plastic surgery to fund a stem-cell center...
...protesters nip after Schwarzenegger because he has proposed four dramatic reforms that may be voted on in a special election next fall if he can't get action in the legislature. The four initiatives would cap spending, make the public employees' pension system less expensive, introduce merit pay for teachers and offer tenure only after 10 years of service, and create an independent panel of judges to draw legislative districts. These are the sort of good-government ideas that political scientists-and wonky columnists-love but that politicians avoid because they arouse fanatic opposition from entrenched interests and inspire massive...
...ourselves what Cambridge property values would be like if Harvard had never existed at all. In fact, we cannot quite picture what Cambridge would look like had Harvard never been—but it would be a grim picture indeed. The politicians and community leaders who so viciously nip at Harvard’s backside would hardly want to live in that alternate reality. But historical speculation only gets at half of Cambridge’s debt to Harvard. The students, tourists, businesses, science, culture and luminaries that Harvard brings to Cambridge benefit Cantabridgians every day. In dollars and cents...