Word: parlay
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They also occasionally parlay success in the sports world into much bigger things (witness NBC head honcho Jeff Zucker ’86, who is also a Crimson editor, who has won five Emmys since taking a sports researching job with NBC during the 1988 Seoul Olympics...
...talent Josh Klimkiewicz, on the other hand, was unable to parlay an impressive junior year into summertime success...
...Follow the money," Deep Throat immortally advised Woodward, and the fact that Felt was now himself doing so, trying to parlay his Vanity Fair confession into a book deal, distressed some people. Besides retaining their looks, the spring in their stride, people who do good things are not supposed to cash in on them--however belatedly. That Felt may have had other, less than noble motives for his actions--he was angry at the Nixon Administration because he was passed over for the directorship of the FBI--also counted against him. When altruism is tainted by apparently mean--actually entirely...
...Harvard women’s basketball coach had a rare opportunity to parlay her gesture towards team success. At 30.8 percent from the field against Penn, the Crimson (11-6, 3-1 Ivy) needed all the offensive help that it could...
...appears to be attempting to trade on fears of clerical and Iranian influence in the UIA and even hoping to cherry-pick allies from within the improbably broad Shiite coalition. The goal would be to use the provisions of the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) governing the process to parlay a minority share of the vote into a leading role in government. That's because the TAL, drawn up by U.S. administrator Paul Bremer, essentially requires the support of two thirds of the National Assembly for a new government. The process begins with the Assembly choosing, by two thirds majority...