Word: pinches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...answered with three runs of its own in the bottom half of the fourth inning. A Javy Lopez double began the scoring, driving in Marc Hordon and advancing Scot Hopps to third, who scored on Mark Mager's ground-out to shortstop. Freshman Trey Hendricks followed up with a pinch-hit line-drive down the right field line, knocking in Lopez and cutting Maine's lead...
...going to hit them very hard, and as they try to diversify their economy - not to mention keep up the good start Vincente Fox and George W. Bush have gotten off to - that's the last thing they want. So they might be expected to help out in a pinch...
...Opponents, from Jimmy Carter (who first set aside the refuge) to just about every Democrat and environmentalist in town, say the five-year time pre-production lag makes this a bad response to a current energy pinch, and a short-term sellout of one of the last unspoiled places in the country. Massachusetts senator John Kerry has threatened to filibuster any bill that would permit drilling in the refuge...
...Hollywood's leading men: Just because it's a Grisham book doesn't mean there's a part for you. The hero is a seven-year-old boy learning life lessons from his Pappy during a 1952 cotton harvest. This semiautobiographical tale has some class struggle and a pinch of sex, but here the author known for his movie-ready legal thrillers takes time to chill. Too much time, in fact, at 388 pages. But his compassion for his characters is infectious, and the book is finally rewarding--a Sunday sermon from a Friday-night storyteller...
...Mercury, since the beginning of her career, has championed the music and culture of Bahia, her native region in Brazil. Her music is axé music (a word derived from the Yoruba word for life force or positive energy). Within her sound is relentless percussion, samba, reggae and a pinch of merengue. Like Madonna, she's a bit of a sexual provocateur. On her album "Feijao Comarroz," Mercury, who is light-skinned, appears hugging a strong, broad-backed, dark-skinned black figure; turn the album over and you see that the figure is a broad-backed, dark-skinned black woman...