Word: pitting
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...proceedings unfolding in Courtroom 76, which pit exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky against his erstwhile protégé Roman Abramovich, began, appropriately enough, in a designer shop. In October 2007, Berezovsky spotted Abramovich browsing in the Hermes boutique in Sloane Street, close to Abramovich's home and the top London football club, Chelsea, he owns. Berezovsky seized the opportunity, serving a writ on Abramovich that he had carried around with him for six months in the hopes of just such an encounter. (See pictures of Euro 2008 soccer...
...addition to standard weekly contests in soccer, basketball, and Frisbee, the activities office has offered a number of weekend tournaments that do not pit Houses and dorms against one another, but instead favor open entry, allowing students to form teams across residences. The result has been a greater focus on individual achievement, with high schoolers and college folk alike striving not for Canaday or Kirkland pride, but rather for personal bragging rights on Harvard’s hallowed battlegrounds of grass, wood, and asphalt...
...mainly off the interest from the former nurse's initial $500,000 investment. Sponsors "don't get that involved" in shaping the curriculum, says Zeiss, because "we have our own accrediting standards." In recent months, Zeiss has announced other joint ventures with local companies. The results: Introduction to Motorsports Pit Crews, Pit Crew U and the Cox Schepp Construction Academy. So far, the San Francisco proposal doesn't appear to have generated serious corporate interest...
Washington politics may not be good at producing health-care reform, but it's great at creating catchy new lingo. Getting "Borked." "Hanging chads." "Lipsticks on pit bulls." The latest is "wise Latina," two words that have been repeated ad nauseam since the middle of May, when conservatives started flogging the text of a 2001 speech given by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at the University of California, Berkeley. In that talk - on the subject of a Latino presence in the American judiciary - Sotomayor now famously said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness...
...later career in Nicaraguan politics, which, unlike boxing, is not a gentleman's sport. "Politicians are a bunch of crooks," Arguello told me in a 2007 interview, after serving three years as the Sandinista vice mayor of Managua. He referred to the mayor's office as a "snake pit." (See pictures of Colombia's guerrilla army...