Word: pit
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Students were to register in two-person teams for the tournament on thefacebook.com, paying $10 per player. The site would pit opponents against each other, and the winning team at each school would be awarded $500 for travel expenses to the national championships on Feb. 26 in New York...
Summers, the book claims, attempted to pit West against Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government, who attributed grade inflation in part to a rise in the black population at Harvard...
...with its wealth and abundant resources, the ability to lead the world in reaching out to those far less fortunate. Instead, over the years we have chosen to put our resources into military spending and most recently into a war that has become an enormous money pit. Perhaps if we had used our resources more wisely over the years, we could have helped reduce the death and destruction caused by the tsunami. Laura Geisel Redondo Beach, California...
...with its wealth and abundant resources, the ability to lead the world in reaching out to those far less fortunate. Instead, over the years we have chosen to put our resources into military spending and most recently into a war that has become an enormous money pit. Perhaps if we had used our resources more wisely over the years we could have helped reduce the death and destruction caused by the tsunami. Laura Geisel Redondo Beach, California, U.S. Tall Order for Abbas In his "Letter from Gaza," Matt Rees referred to the "culture of waste and corruption that ruined...
...with its wealth and abundant resources, the ability to lead the world in reaching out to those far less fortunate. Instead, over the years we have chosen to put our resources into military spending and most recently into a war that has become an enormous money pit. Perhaps if we had used our resources more wisely over the years, we could have helped reduce the death and destruction caused by the tsunami...