Word: parlays
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...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...
...Incumbent presidents] already have so many employees on board with experience. It is more likely to be the case that had people been volunteering for a challenger, they would be able to parlay their experience into a job,” she said...
...August, accusing the country's leadership of assisting U.S. forces in Iraq. But French journalists had been largely spared. "The few times French journalists were [apprehended], they always released us because we are French," says Sammy Ketz, Baghdad bureau chief for Agence France-Presse. The French government tried to parlay its relatively good standing in the Muslim world - a result of its traditional backing for Arab causes and its opposition to the Iraq war - into a positive outcome. "Because of France's distinguished position in rejecting the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, we appeal to the people who kidnapped...