Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...England's momentum quickly disappeared. The Jets won the coin toss and marched down the field to kick a field goal. Give New York credit for scoring, and sure New England could have gotten the ball back if its defense had "won" that particular part of the game. But why shouldn't the NFL give the Pats, and other teams like it, a chance to score too? Even a couple of NFL coaches this season have decided the the random nature of overtime can be too risky; twice so far, teams which scored a last second touchdown and could send...
...many ways, the future has indeed arrived, just not where we might have expected it. Take the internet: Though he’d miss his floating chair, George Jetson would be astounded by public WiFi or BitTorrent if he lived today. In particular, there’s no field where the future is more self-evident than in the world of optics...
...measure. Phone numbers and websites were added, along with commentary about some of the larger donors, all public information obtained through the California secretary of state's office. "My goal was to make it socially unacceptable to give huge amounts of money to take away the rights of one particular group, a minority group," says Fred Karger, a retired political consultant and founder of Californians Against Hate. "I wanted to make the public aware of who these people are and how much they're giving, and then they could make a decision as to whether or not they want...
...prosecution e-mail describes how jurors repeatedly contacted the government's legal team during the trial to express, among other things, one juror's romantic interest in a member of the prosecution team. "The jurors kept sending out messages" via U.S. Marshals, the e-mail says, identifying a particular juror as "very interested" in a person who had sat at the prosecution table in court. The same juror was later described as reaching out to members of the prosecution team for personal advice about her career and educational plans. Conyers commented that the "risk of [jury] bias ... is obvious...
...Today last year managed to convince a lot of colleges to participate in its interactive database, which uses several sets of bar graphs to show how a particular school stacks up against a group of peer institutions. But the database doesn't provide numerical rankings. Which means consumers have to gather a lot of data and do their own calculations to compare one school to another, which is precisely the kind of thoughtful research colleges wants prospective students to be doing. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...