Word: pivoters
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...shake out, who knows, but the potential and the upside for him is that he can score out of the low post with a lot of different ways. He can score when a defender plays behind him, which a lot of teams do in our league. He can pivot-face. He can shoot. He can shoot from the elbows. He can shoot from the baseline, be a spot-up player. He’s got very good hands, good passing instincts. He’s a player you can lob the ball to and he can catch...
...room is dominated by the screech of Asics boxing boots against the hardwood floor and the flat, brutal sound of gloved fists making contact with the bags. Gurkoff chants to himself, “Pivot, punch” as he dances around a black and turquoise punching...
...while pushing those same tax cuts in St. Louis, Mo., he stood in front of a $48 million F-18 fighter jet. As the first statue of Saddam fell in Baghdad three weeks ago, the White House was putting into motion a plan that would allow the President to pivot from his focus abroad to mending fences at home. Bush's "hardware in the heartland" tour follows the battle plan for his re-election effort: from now until November 2004, he will blend martial images with rhetoric about tax cuts and never let the nation forget that...
...story of his life--his birth in Mecca, his rise to prominence as an honest man and a successful merchant, his loving marriage to Khadija--leading up to the moment when, while he was meditating in the hills above Mecca, an angel instructed him to "recite." That was the pivot of Muhammad's life, the event that turned him from a well-to-do businessman into the acknowledged leader of a religious group that established dominance in much of Arabia during his lifetime...
...official. The French have done so not because the Americans want it, but to keep up with the British. While it's true that the alliance no longer needs to fight the wars of old, it may not yet be ready to address the newest dangers. "NATO needs to pivot from an inward focus to an outward one, because the greatest threats we face are no longer from within Europe, but from the region stretching from North Africa to Central Asia," says Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to NATO. "The big threat is the nexus of terrorism and weapons...