Word: outset
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...hard to figure out why Clinton couldn't simply embrace his new life from the outset. If being President is the most difficult job in the universe, being an ex-President must surely be the most sublime. The speaking fees and board appointments pay enough to finance homes in any vacation spot one might fancy. Everything one says is wise, and everything one writes goes straight to the best-seller list. Ex-Presidents do good works, make the occasional peacemaking mission, oversee the construction of a shrine for their White House relics. The biggest payoff of all as a former...
Freshman Ashley Harmeling, sophomore Ella Witcher, and juniors Margaret Elias and Colby Hall all paced the Crimson at the outset with easy victories...
...second game proved to be even closer than the first, as it featured eleven ties and five lead changes. The pattern was established straight from the outset, with the two teams exchanging points on each other's serves to 5-5. Roger Williams then took its first lead of the match at 6-5, but Harvard ran off three straight points to take an 8-6 advantage...
...From the outset, I think our guys were determined not to lose two in a row. I think that's a streak they're starting to value more and more as this whole thing goes on," Sullivan said after the Penn win. (Harvard had lost its last game to Columbia...
...revenge from hard-liners in the Iranian government. Pan Am 103 blew up less than six months after that incident, but more than two years after the bombing raids on Tripoli. The logic of revenge is inscrutable, certainly, but the idea of Iranian involvement was strongly suspected at the outset and still has not been universally abandoned. More central to Swire's argument: on Oct. 26 of the same year German police raided two apartments of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and found a veritable bomb factory, complete with Toshiba radio-cassette players, explosives, detonators...